FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[GA Russell]

The Eagle Has Landed - Jack Higgins - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Landed-...dp/B004RDKPMO/

*****

The Silver Ghost - Charlotte MacLeod - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Ghost-.../dp/B0099IHHOG

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - The Crossing Places: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 1 by Elly Griffiths

Spoiler:

A child's bones are discovered near the site of a pre-historic henge on the north Norfolk coast, and the police ask local forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway to date them. Are these the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years ago?

DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for this missing child. Ever since she vanished, someone has been sending him bizarre anonymous notes about ritual sacrifice, quoting Shakespeare and the Bible. He knows Ruth's instincts and experience can help him finally put this case to rest.

Then a second child goes missing, and Ruth finds herself in danger from a killer who knows she's getting ever closer to the truth...

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crossing-Pl...362247031_f_29


Looks to be UK only at the moment

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - Death of a Nobody (Lambert and Hook Detective series) by J M Gregson

Spoiler:

Charlie Pegg was a wanted man.

A skilled joiner, he had full access to the homes of many wealthy figures, including Old Mead Park, a luxury block of flats that is home to the notorious gangster, Jim Berridge.

With his insider’s access and personable charm, Pegg made the ideal informant.

Listening to voicemails and inspecting the houses, he supplied valuable tip-offs to the police.

But the police can’t offer him any protection from the criminals he uncovered.

A ‘snout’ has plenty of enemies – enemies who know how to kill, and how to cover their tracks.

When Pegg’s body is found stabbed in a gutter on his way to deliver his latest intel, it quickly becomes clear that this was a professional job by trained killers.

For Superintendent Lambert and Sergeant Hook, this will not be a straight-forward case. There will be no cooperation from the criminal underworld.

What secret was Pegg about to reveal? And which of his enemies would go so far as to kill to protect it?

Starting with Pegg’s tip-off, Lambert and Hook must pick up his trail and follow his leads to find the killer.

But when their chief suspect is shot dead in his car, the trail runs cold...

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Nobod...362247031_f_50

US
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Nobody-...362247031_f_50

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Death-Nobo...362247031_f_50

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Death-Nobody-L...362247031_f_50

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - By The North Door by Meg Elizabeth Atkins

Spoiler:

Lucy Watson was just an ordinary girl. Or was she…?

She had lived in the same ordinary house on the same ordinary street with her mother for most of her life.

But then she met him.

And suddenly, she vanished.

Though not without a trace.

Leaving letters and messages, hints that she was all right, Lucy’s life remained a mystery to those closest to her.

But it wasn’t long before the messages stopped and she disappeared completely…

After three years of no contact, Inspector Henry Beaumont makes it his personal mission to find her.

In a house on the edge of a tract of ancient woodland, close to the village of Nine Maidens, he becomes involved with a mysterious family.

However, Inspector Beaumont soon realises that this is far more than a simple missing persons case.

Secrets begin to surface and he soon discovers an age-old earth magic that could hold the answer to Lucy’s disappearance.

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/North-Door-...ndeavour+press

US
https://www.amazon.com/North-Door-Me...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/North-Door...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/North-Door-Meg...ndeavour+press

[HarryT]

Thanks, Mort!

[Froide]

Thanks, Mort.

(Also free at Sainsbury's)

[sufue]

I've read the first few titles in this series and have quite enjoyed them. And you're right, it hasn't crossed the Atlantic - this title is still $9.99 at Kindle UK as of about noon US Pacific time.

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free Today on Amazon UK - The Crossing Places: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 1 by Elly Griffiths

Spoiler:

A child's bones are discovered near the site of a pre-historic henge on the north Norfolk coast, and the police ask local forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway to date them. Are these the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years ago?

DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for this missing child. Ever since she vanished, someone has been sending him bizarre anonymous notes about ritual sacrifice, quoting Shakespeare and the Bible. He knows Ruth's instincts and experience can help him finally put this case to rest.

Then a second child goes missing, and Ruth finds herself in danger from a killer who knows she's getting ever closer to the truth...

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crossing-Pl...362247031_f_29


Looks to be UK only at the moment

[sufue]

Watching the Dark is the 20th in the Inspector Banks series by Peter Robinson. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0089LOHGU

Spoiler:

One of the premier masters of modern British crime, New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson brings back Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his colleague DI Annie Cabbot in a complex case involving corruption, a dead cop, and a missing girl

Watching the Dark

A decorated detective inspector is murdered on the tranquil grounds of the St. Peter's Police Treatment Centre, shot through the heart with a crossbow arrow, and compromising photographs are discovered in his room. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is well aware that he must handle the highly sensitive—and dangerously explosive—investigation with the utmost discretion.

Because the case may involve police corruption, an officer from Professional Standards, Inspector Joanna Passero, has arrived to work with Banks and his team. Though he tries to keep an open mind and offer his full cooperation, the dedicated Banks and his practical investigative style clash with Passero's cool demeanor and by-the- book professionalism. All too soon, the seasoned detective finds himself under uncomfortable scrutiny, his methods second-guessed.

As Banks digs deeper into the life and career of the victim, a decorated cop and recent widower named Bill Quinn, he comes to believe that Quinn's murder may be linked to an unsolved missing persons case. Six years earlier, a pretty nineteen-year-old English girl named Rachel Hewitt made national headlines when she disappeared without a trace in Tallinn, Estonia. Convinced that finding the truth about Rachel will lead to Quinn's killer, Banks follows a twisting trail of clues that lead from England to the dark, cobbled alleys of Tallinn's Old Town. But the closer he seems to solving the complicated cold case, the more it becomes clear that someone doesn't want the past stirred up.

While Banks prowls the streets of Tallinn, DI Annie Cabbot, recovered from her near-fatal shooting and back at the station in Eastvale, is investigating a migrant labor scam involving corrupt bureaucrats and a loan shark who feeds on the poor. As evidence in each investigation mounts, Banks realizes the two are linked—and that solving them may put even more lives, including his own, in jeopardy.

[sufue]

And the third title in this series by Harry Bingham, The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths, is now on US Kindle Countdown, at $0.99 for about 5 1/4 more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Death.../dp/B00Q6QOCQK

Spoiler:

Fiona Griffiths's toughest case yet: alone, undercover, scared

A woman starved to death in a remote Welsh cottage. A computer guy left to bleed to death, his hands brutally hacked off at the wrist.

When DC Fiona Griffiths and her colleagues realise they're staring at one of the world's most audacious robberies, she's asked to take on the challenge: will she go undercover to penetrate this criminal gang from within?

When Fiona says yes, she has to give up her old life entirely. She becomes Fiona Grey, a homeless woman struggling to get her life back together again. When the criminal gang adopt her as one of their own, she's totally alone, vulnerable - and dangerous as hell.

This international smash hit murder mystery series is ideal for fans of Stieg Larsson, Tana French ... and anyone else who loves strong female protagonists.

Originally Posted by sufue

Love Story, with Murders is the second in the Fiona Griffiths series by Harry Bingham. It's a US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about five more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Murders...dp/B01AMPORQ0/


The first title in this series, Talking to the Dead, after having been free for quite a while at Kindle US, also is now also $0.99. So if you didn't grab while it was free but prefer to read in order, you can still get it for what is, IMO, a totally reasonable price.

And just for interest, when the first one was free, it prompted mitford13 to remember an article about Harry Bingham's move towards self-publishing - if you are interested, see here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3252062

[sufue]

A few other random price drops to $1.99 at Kindle US. These are all late-series titles, which is sort of nice...all too often only the first title in a series gets discounted.

The Bones Beneath is the 12th (and next-to-last, so far) in the DI Tom Thorne series by Mark Billingham
link: https://www.amazon.com/Bones-Beneath.../dp/B00K9W24PI

Spoiler:

The Bones Beneath, the twelfth novel in the internationally bestselling Tom Thorne series shows Thorne facing perhaps the most dangerous killer he has ever put away, Stuart Nicklin. When Nicklin announces that he wishes to reveal the whereabouts of one of his earliest victims and that he wants the cop who caught him to be there when he does it, it becomes clear that Thorne’s life is about to become seriously unpleasant. Thorne is forced to accompany Nicklin to a remote island off the Welsh coast which is cut off from the mainland in every sense. Shrouded in myth and legend, it is said to be the resting place of 20,000 saints and as Thorne and his team search for bones that are somewhat more recent, it becomes clear that Nicklin’s motives are far from altruistic.

The twisted scheme of a dangerous and manipulative psychopath will result in many more victims and will leave Tom Thorne with the most terrible choice he has ever had to make.

A Pattern of Lies is the 7th (and most recent, until a new title comes out in August) in the Bess Crawford series by Charles Todd.
link: https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Lies-.../dp/B00Q33PSXW

Spoiler:

A horrific explosion at a gunpowder mill sends Bess Crawford to war-torn France to keep a deadly pattern of lies from leading to more deaths, in this compelling and atmospheric mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Question of Honor and An Unwilling Accomplice.

An explosion and fire at the Ashton Gunpowder Mill in Kent has killed over a hundred men. It’s called an appalling tragedy—until suspicion and rumor raise the specter of murder. While visiting the Ashton family, Bess Crawford finds herself caught up in a venomous show of hostility that doesn’t stop with Philip Ashton’s arrest. Indeed, someone is out for blood, and the household is all but under siege.

The only known witness to the tragedy is now at the Front in France. Bess is asked to find him. When she does, he refuses to tell her anything that will help the Ashtons. Realizing that he believes the tissue of lies that has nearly destroyed a family, Bess must convince him to tell her what really happened that terrible Sunday morning. But now someone else is also searching for this man.

To end the vicious persecution of the Ashtons, Bess must risk her own life to protect her reluctant witness from a clever killer intent on preventing either of them from ever reaching England.

Remains of Innocence is the 16th (and most recent, until a new title comes out in September) in the Joanna Brady series by J. A. Jance.
link: https://www.amazon.com/Remains-Innoc.../dp/B00G29VYKS

Spoiler:

Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that may be tied together in New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Arizona’s Cochise County and the desert Southwest in all its beauty and mystery.

An old woman, a hoarder, is dying of emphysema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In cleaning out her house, her daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred dollar bills hidden in the tall stacks of books and magazines that crowd every corner.

Tracing the money’s origins will take Liza on a journey that will end in Cochise County, where Sheriff Joanna Brady is embroiled in a personal mystery of her own. A man she considers a family friend is found dead at the bottom of a hole in a limestone cavern near Bisbee. And now there is the mystery of Liza and the money. Are the two disparate cases connected? It’s up to Joanna to find out.

And one non-series title...
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
link: https://www.amazon.com/Frog-Music-No.../dp/B00ECE9OAM

Spoiler:

From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room: "Her greatest achievement yet...Emma Donoghue shows more than range with FROG MUSIC--she shows genius." -- Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life

Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead.

The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts.

In thrilling, cinematic style, FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other.

[Lynx-lynx]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free Today on Amazon UK - The Crossing Places: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 1 by Elly Griffiths
UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crossing-Places-Ruth-Galloway-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B004EYT57C?ie=UTF8&ref_=zg_bs_362247031_f_29
Looks to be UK only at the moment

Thanks Mort I haven't read any of these books yet, so I'll add it to my list
Also Kobo UK:
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...ssing-places-2

Kobo and Amazon in AU, UK and probably elsewhere:
Free: Ruth's First Christmas Tree: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...christmas-tree
(Apparently this is No. 4.5 in the series)

[Fbone]

Ground Truth (A Jack Strider Novel) by Rob Sangster is FREE today. Bell Bridge Books 2008. GR 4.43 [7 ratings].

https://smile.amazon.com/Ground-Trut...s=ground+truth

[sufue]

I got a late afternoon email from Early Bird Books (Open Road Media), advertising a number of mysteries on sale at $1.99, "for today only". Not sure why the email came so late in the day, or exactly whose today "today" is, but here is a list of the books, with Amazon US links. The email indicates that they are on sale at all the usual suspect ebook retailers, so if you want to try Kobo or BN or others, they probably will be on sale there too, but I don't have time to do multiple links/blurbs right now. Most have been on sale before, but YMMV...

Just Desserts, #1 in the Savannah Reid series by G. A. McKevett
link: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Desserts.../dp/B00J90ELMU

Permed to Death, #1 in the Bad Hair Day series by Nancy J. Cohen
link: https://www.amazon.com/Permed-Death-.../dp/B00KFU6QYY

Corpus de Crossword, #6 in the Crossword series by Nero Blanc
link: https://www.amazon.com/Corpus-Crossw.../dp/B00N2CLU0C

Who Pays the Piper? is a title in the Ernest Lamb series by Patricia Wentworth. The blurb says it's the 2nd in the series but SYKM doesn't list it - perhaps it has been re-issued with a different title, however, SYKM says the second one is Pursuit of a Parcel, and that title also is available from Open Road.
link: https://www.amazon.com/Pays-Piper-Er.../dp/B01CTOTG5E

Madness in Maggody is the fifth in the Arly Hanks series by Joan Hess
link: https://www.amazon.com/Madness-Maggo.../dp/B01ENRHK5I

Steamed is the first in the Gourmet Girl series by by Jessica Conant-Park and Susan Conant
link: https://www.amazon.com/Steamed-Gourm.../dp/B016VNIGS2

[sufue]

The Georgia Davis PI Series: Boxed Set of Three contains (you guessed it) the first three titles in the Georgia Davis series by Libby Fischer Hellmann. The titles are Easy Innocence, Doubleback, and Toxicity.

It is FREE right now at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Georgia-Davis.../dp/B0069FIBNS

Spoiler:

PI Georgia Davis burst on the scene in Libby Fischer Hellmann's EASY INNOCENCE (2008). That was followed in 2009 by DOUBLEBACK, which reunited Georgia with Ellie Foreman. TOXICITY, the prequel to the series was released in 2011. Now all three are together in one volume at a very affordable price.

EASY INNOCENCE (2008):
Winner, Best PI Novel, Readers Choice Award
Freshly-minted PI Georgia Davis investigates the murder of a high school girl and finds out how far teen girls will go for approval from their peers.

DOUBLEBACK (2009)
"Great Lakes Great Read" Autumn Pick, 2009 Great Lakes Bookseller Association
PI Georgia Davis and Ellie Foreman team up after the kidnapping of a young girl triggers a series of more deadly events.

TOXICITY (2011)
Ten years before Easy Innocence, three bodies turn up in quick succession—all of them dumped in waste disposal dumpsters or landfills. Officer Georgia Davis, her boyfriend detective, and his partner team up and find much more than they bargained for.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by sufue

The Georgia Davis PI Series: Boxed Set of Three contains (you guessed it) the first three titles in the Georgia Davis series by Libby Fischer Hellmann. The titles are Easy Innocence, Doubleback, and Toxicity.

It is FREE right now at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Georgia-Davis.../dp/B0069FIBNS

Got it.

Thank you!