FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[sufue]

The Dirty Book Murder by Thomas Shawver has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US.

link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GL3RLZM

Spoiler:

In this smart, fast-paced mystery debut, Thomas Shawver introduces a charming, unlikely hero from the rarefied world of antique books.

Book merchant Michael Bevan arrives at the Kansas City auction house hoping to uncover some hidden literary gold. Though the auction ad had mentioned erotica, Michael is amazed to find lovely Japanese Shunga scrolls and a first edition of a novel by French author Colette with an inscription by Ernest Hemingway. This one item alone could fetch a small fortune in the right market.

As Michael and fellow dealer Gareth Hughes are warming up for battle, a stranger comes out of nowhere and outbids them—to the tune of sixty grand. But Gareth is unwilling to leave the auction house empty-handed, so he steals two volumes, including the Colette novel. When Gareth is found dead the next day, Michael quickly becomes the prime suspect: Not only had the pair been tossed out of a bar mid-fistfight the night before, but there is evidence from Michael’s shop at the crime scene.

Now the attorney-turned-bookman must find out who wanted the Colette so badly that they would kill for it—and frame Michael. Desperate to stay out of police custody, Michael follows the murderer’s trail into the wealthiest echelons of the city, where power and influence meet corruption—and mystery and eroticism are perverted by pure evil. Unfortunately for Michael, one dead book dealer is only the opening chapter in a terrifying tale of high culture and lowlifes.

[sufue]

Shattered Justice is a box set with three legal thrillers by Paul Levine. It's on US Kindle Countdown at $0.99 for about 3 more days. The three titles are:

• Solomon vs. Lord (first in the Steve Solomon/Victoria Lord series)
• To Speak for the Dead (first in the Jake Lassiter series)
• Illegal

Levine's books go on sale/free pretty often, and some titles are also contained in some multi-author collections (such as here and here), so check to make sure you don't already have these titles before you buy.

link: http://www.amazon.com/SHATTERED-JUST...dp/B00DK05YBM/

Spoiler:

"Shattered Justice" is a "boxed set" of three bestselling thrillers, now in ebook format. The set includes "Solomon vs. Lord," the FIRST of a series, "To Speak for the Dead," the FIRST of the Jake Lassiter series, and "Illegal," the critically acclaimed stand-alone border thriller.

"Solomon vs. Lord" features the mismatched legal team, Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord. He's the irreverent, rule-breaking trial lawyer, and she's his uptight, by-the-book counterpart. Here's the setup:

Victoria Lord follows all the rules...
Steve Solomon makes up his own...
When they defend an accused murderer, they'll either end up in ruin, in jail...or in bed.

"Remarkably fresh and original with characters you can't help loving and sparkling dialogue that echoes the Hepburn-Tracy screwball comedies. A hilarious, touching and entertaining twist on the legal thriller." -- Chicago Sun-Times

"To Speak for the Dead," introduced the world to Jake Lassiter, the linebacker-turned-lawyer with a hard bark and a tender heart. The book was an international bestseller and was named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best mysteries of the year. The setup:

A doctor in love with his patient's wife...
A fatal mistake during surgery...
Accident? Malpractice? Or murder?

Finally comes "Illegal," a chilling tale of human trafficking and sex slavery. At the heart of the story: a mother's love for her son and the redemption of a man intent on escaping his past. The setup:

A down-and-out L.A. lawyer with nothing to lose...
A beautiful Mexican woman who disappears crossing the border...
And the powerful and corrupt rancher who would destroy them both.

[maddz]

Book 6 in The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael - The Virgin in the Ice is available at 99p on Amazon.co.uk today:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Virgin-Chron...al-text&sr=1-2

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Die-Cast (A Peter Marklin Mystery)by Neville Steed

Spoiler:

Peter Marklin enjoys a quiet life on the tranquil Dorset coast with his beautiful girlfriend Arabella and his Toy Emporium to keep him busy.

When Hollywood starlet Lana-Lee Claudell moves nearby and invites Arabella and Marklin to her home one evening, they are both looking forward to what promises to be an occasion tinged with glamour.

But then Lana-Lee’s former lover Adam Longhurst arrives at the party in a drunken rage, and it seems the rich and famous have their problems too.

Things take an even darker turn when Lana-Lee’s semi-estranged husband Ben Maxwell is found dead on the beach, and Longhurst is in the frame for his murder.

Desperate to free Longhurst, Lana-Lee enlists the help of amateur sleuth Marklin to find the real murderer.

His old friend from Scotland Yard, Inspector Blake, has turned up to offer encouragement, and Marklin’s investigations soon start to unearth a seedy tale of drugs and smuggling - a far cry from the superficial gloss of Hollywood.

Can Marklin prove Longhurst’s innocence?

Just what is the mysterious white ghostly apparition that everyone involved in the mystery starts to see?

If Longhurst didn’t kill Maxwell, who did?

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Die-Cast-Pet...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Die-Cast-Peter...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Die-Cast-Pe...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Die-Cast-Peter-...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Flood Warning by Will Rayner

Spoiler:

In the tail end of the spring after the Prohibition, business is slow for the father and son private eye firm of Flood and Flood.

Slow, that is, until the younger son, T.J. wakes up with a hell of a headache. He’s been socked over the head during a fracas between rival gangsters.

One winds up dead in Floods’ offices, landing a hot case on their very own turf.

Who killed Benny the Bundle? And why do two huge and aggressive vice cops seem so interested in this case? Andy why do the bodies keep piling up?

Elder partner Sam Flood has more than enough on his plate, trying to keep his reckless son in line and caring for his elderly and increasingly absent-minded second wife.

The last thing he needs is someone attempting to drown him down at the wharf…

…and T.J., who has never got over the mysterious disappearance of his beloved Jessica, finds himself in increasingly hot water.

Can he trust the two hulking vice cops, who seem to be following their every move and bent on obstructing their case?

And how closely can he afford to allow Lieutenant James ‘Jimbo’ Bracken to know what he knows?

And what does a cryptic coded map bearing the legend ‘P.E.A.C.E.’ mean for the case?

What’s really inside the crates labelled ‘100 Ornamental Mother of Pearl Boxes’ that T.J. finds at the premises of Central City Distribution Service?

As the death toll mounts around them, father and son find themselves facing their toughest challenge yet.

Sam, the elder Flood, is precise and cautious, while T.J. is an irreverent, hard-drinking loner who is contemptuous of authority and likes to do things his way.

Tragedies in each of their backgrounds contribute to their stormy relationship which is about to be put under more pressure, as they realise their very lives are in the gravest danger.

The wave of crime seems to be turning against the private eyes…

Can they put their differences aside and put an end to the violent strike that has gripped San Francisco’s waterfront and spilled into the city itself?

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flood-Warnin...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Flood-Warning-...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Flood-Warni...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Flood-Warning-W...ndeavour+press

[GA Russell]

Original Sin - PD James - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/Original-Adam-...dp/B007YUBIV4/

[sufue]

Two HarperCollins/Witness Impulse titles are $0.99 at Kindle US right now.

The Chill of Night is the second in the Mike McCabe series by James Hayman.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J7Q6246

Spoiler:

A frozen corpse.
A missing witness.
Strange voices that aren't there.

One cold night, Lainie Goff, a glamorous young attorney on the fast track to a partnership at Portland's top firm, is found frozen in the trunk of her BMW on the local fishing pier.

Detectives Mike McCabe and Maggie Savage quickly uncover a long list of suspects: Lainie's boss, who was also her lover; an ex-priest who runs a shelter for runaway teens; an abusive stepfather who raped Lainie as a teen; and a creepy landlord who seems to know more than he should about her private life.

Still, there is no hard evidence until a mentally ill young woman who hears voices gives an island cop an eyewitness account he doesn't take seriously.

But when she too disappears, McCabe and Savage find themselves in a desperate race against time to stop a vicious killer before he rids himself of the only person who knows who he is.

The Tomorrow Heist is by Jack Soren. The blurb looks more like a thriller than a mystery, but this thread is for both.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KFG44Z6

Spoiler:

Readers looking for twisting, fast-paced suspense will be swept away by Jack Soren’s newest tale of thrilling international adventure...

Jonathan Hall and Lew Katchbrow intended to leave life as international art thieves behind them—if only the money hadn’t run out. But when a shadowy organization approaches the duo offering compensation, protection, and prestige in exchange for their skills, Jonathan and Lew think it’s the answer to their problems…

But the nightmare has only just begun.

Suddenly Jonathan and Lew are thrust headlong into a race against time and a technology that science says shouldn’t exist. With the very nature of life and death on Earth hanging in the balance, it’s up to them to discover the truth behind Ashita—a terrifying futuristic city in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. But the clock is ticking. If Jonathan and Lew fail this heist, millions will die—and the human race will never be the same.

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Sue for Mercy by Veronica Heley

Spoiler:

When Sue Stephens comes across a car crash one January night, she finds it hard to believe it was a genuine accident.

She saw the car race past her, and the driver she caught a glimpse of was not the young, handsome man who she finds stinking of alcohol, bleeding heavily and spilling out of the driving seat.

So where is the real driver?

And why did he run off and leave this man unconscious?

When Sue takes the victim, Charles, to hospital he claims he can remember nothing since he left work three days earlier.

But is he lying to her?

She begins to fear he is involved in something illegal…

If so, is the handsome Charles a victim or villain of the piece?

And whose money — or life — is at stake?

Should Sue retreat from the man who is beginning to steal her heart?

Or risk her life to find out the truth?

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sue-Mercy-Ve...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Sue-Mercy-Vero...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Sue-Mercy-V...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Sue-Mercy-Veron...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Deadly Waters by Theodore Judson

Spoiler:

A thrilling dark comedy about a group of middle-aged men who take their revenge upon a world that has passed them by.


Erin Mondragon grew up with everything. But when he goes to prison for a crime he didn’t commit, he seeks revenge on those who destroyed him.

To take vengeance against the U. S., Mondragon enlists John Taylor, along with a former soldier, an engineer whose father went bankrupt and committed suicide, and several other misfits whose lives have taken a bad turn.

Taylor Imports has been in John Taylor’s family for generations. Now his company has been taken over by a corporate raider, his wife has left him for a younger man, and his son spends his money while refusing to have anything to do with him.

When his old friend Erin strolls back into his life, John is glad to see him.

Erin talks John into getting involved in a local theatre group and learning to speak Russian.

As John stumbles through Chekhov, he has no idea that this is the first step in Erin’s masterplan for revenge.

On a fishing trip he introduces John to Colonel Michael Method, a man with a violent streak and a violent past.

Although hesitant, John gets on board with Erin’s plans to regain their wealth, and make the government pay.

Together they plan the biggest act of domestic terrorism the world has ever seen.

Erin seems to have planned everything perfectly, but no one counted on a sharp eyed waitress in a roadside diner in Arizona, or a small town sheriff, Sheriff Bob Mathers, the only competent man in the nation, would become wise to their plot.

What will become of the men who seek revenge? Will they be successful or vengeance catch up with them…?

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Water...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Waters-...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Deadly-Wate...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Deadly-Waters-T...ndeavour+press

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free on Amazon UK - Deadly Waters by Theodore Judson

Spoiler:

A thrilling dark comedy about a group of middle-aged men who take their revenge upon a world that has passed them by.


Erin Mondragon grew up with everything. But when he goes to prison for a crime he didn’t commit, he seeks revenge on those who destroyed him.

To take vengeance against the U. S., Mondragon enlists John Taylor, along with a former soldier, an engineer whose father went bankrupt and committed suicide, and several other misfits whose lives have taken a bad turn.

Taylor Imports has been in John Taylor’s family for generations. Now his company has been taken over by a corporate raider, his wife has left him for a younger man, and his son spends his money while refusing to have anything to do with him.

When his old friend Erin strolls back into his life, John is glad to see him.

Erin talks John into getting involved in a local theatre group and learning to speak Russian.

As John stumbles through Chekhov, he has no idea that this is the first step in Erin’s masterplan for revenge.

On a fishing trip he introduces John to Colonel Michael Method, a man with a violent streak and a violent past.

Although hesitant, John gets on board with Erin’s plans to regain their wealth, and make the government pay.

Together they plan the biggest act of domestic terrorism the world has ever seen.

Erin seems to have planned everything perfectly, but no one counted on a sharp eyed waitress in a roadside diner in Arizona, or a small town sheriff, Sheriff Bob Mathers, the only competent man in the nation, would become wise to their plot.

What will become of the men who seek revenge? Will they be successful or vengeance catch up with them…?

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Water...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Waters-...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Deadly-Wate...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Deadly-Waters-T...ndeavour+press

This looks interesting, so I picked it up.

Thanks!

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free on Amazon UK - Sue for Mercy by Veronica Heley

Spoiler:

When Sue Stephens comes across a car crash one January night, she finds it hard to believe it was a genuine accident.

She saw the car race past her, and the driver she caught a glimpse of was not the young, handsome man who she finds stinking of alcohol, bleeding heavily and spilling out of the driving seat.

So where is the real driver?

And why did he run off and leave this man unconscious?

When Sue takes the victim, Charles, to hospital he claims he can remember nothing since he left work three days earlier.

But is he lying to her?

She begins to fear he is involved in something illegal…

If so, is the handsome Charles a victim or villain of the piece?

And whose money — or life — is at stake?

Should Sue retreat from the man who is beginning to steal her heart?

Or risk her life to find out the truth?

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sue-Mercy-Ve...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Sue-Mercy-Vero...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Sue-Mercy-V...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Sue-Mercy-Veron...ndeavour+press

Romantic thriller originally published Robert Hale (1974)

And I read it from the library and later bought a copy in a library sale !

Recommended, even if the plot is pretty unlikely.

[sufue]

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 this title via KU, enough that I am hoping Griffin will write another. (In the spirit of disclosure, I really really like historical mysteries, so am a bit biased...).

In any case, Last Mass has been US Kindle Countdown in the past, and is KU, but it is also just plain FREE right now at Kindle US, not sure why or for how long.

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.

[sunnysmiles]

Free Also in UK Amazon

[Mort1997]

Originally Posted by sunnysmiles

Free Also in UK Amazon

Uk link

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Mass-Gi...U?tag=mr060-20

[Wearever]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Original Sin - PD James - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/Original-Adam-...dp/B007YUBIV4/

That's a good deal for this book, I got it a while ago but have not read it yet. I'm slowly going through them. I'll be sad when I read the last one. Although I'm still waiting for two more to become e-books.