FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free on Amazon UK - Invisible (An Ivy Malone Mystery Book #1) by Lorena McCourtney (repeat)

This must be a different version, somehow. I know I bought it before (and read it) but it doesn't tell me that I've bought it before. I picked up this one anyway, in case they've changed things.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by sufue

Gaudy Night is the 11th (SYKM) or 12th (blurb) in the Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L. Sayers. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008JVJDVO

Also $1.99 is Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers it seems

https://www.amazon.com/Strong-Poison...dp/B008JVJKOY/

[maddz]

In the Autumn Sale at Amazon.co.uk:

Stephen Saylor 'Roman Blood' (Gordianus the Finder 1) £1.49
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roman-Blood...15213&sr=1-203

[sufue]

If you want all of the titles in Shelley Singer's Jake Samson series, but haven't picked them up when they have individually been free/discounted in the past, you might want to take a look at The Complete Jake Samson Mystery Series Vol 1-6: With Bonus Book--Torch Song: A Dystopian Thriller!, which presumably is what it says it is.

The box set is $0.99 for about 17 more hours on US Kindle Countdown.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Jake.../dp/B01FRKXQE4

Spoiler:

All six wonderfully wry and witty Bay Area adventures of Jake Samson and Rosie Vicente in one handy box set-- PLUS A BONUS BOOK-- at the just right price of $9.99! A $21 value!

“Singer has a good ear for dialogue among the witless …” ---San Francisco Bay Guardian

NICE JEWISH COP TURNS PI...

Ex-Chicago-cop (now unlicensed PI) Jake Samson is living the life of “an urban gentleman farmer” in laid-back Oakland, California, occasionally “handling discreet matters” to keep his cats, Tigris and Euphrates, in kitty treats.

His lesbian BFF, Rosie the carpenter, and her justice-dispensing two-by-four are the perfect complements to his relaxed casual style – no room for macho posturing with this crew! Readers will love their easy, breezy relationship, and wish they had a friend like either one of them.

WHO WILL LIKE Jake and Rosie: Fans of Parnell Hall's Stanley Hastings series, Tony Dunbar's Tubby Dubonnet series, Bill Pronzini's "Nameless" Detective series, Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone series, Susan Dunlap's Jill Smith series, Julie Smith's Rebecca Schwartz series ... and vintage TV series like COLUMBO, THE ROCKFORD FILES, HARRY O, MAGNUM, and HAWAII FIVE-O. Also LGBT fans!

TORCH SONG’s post-apocalyptic kick-ass heroine will particularly appeal to LGBT readers, young adults, and people of all ages who never met a dystopian thriller they didn't love.

SAMSON'S DEAL

When an acquaintance is the primary suspect in his wife’s murder, Jake and Rosie go inside a radical right wing activist group to which the wife is connected. An assortment of Berkeley kooks and interesting plot twists keep things hopping till the very end.

FREE DRAW

Jake’s buddy and quasi-boss calls in a favor when his nephew is accused of murder. It's up to Jake and Rosie to find the real killer, and they've got a number of suspects: the victim's fellow executives at a questionable correspondence school, his divided and bitter family, and his quirky Marin County neighbors--a truly odd assortment of California woods dwellers.

FULL HOUSE

An ark in the middle of suburban Oakland is interesting but not strange by California standards. Even one built by peaceful cultists preparing for the coming flood. Until sometime private eye Jake Samson is hired to find Noah, their leader, who has disappeared with a lovely devotee and a quarter million in cash. The cult suspects foul play, but the police aren’t convinced.

SPIT IN THE OCEAN

The North Coast Sperm Bank in tiny Wheeler, California has been knocked over, and the perp’s tossed its assets in the ocean, leaving a religious-nut note of explanation. Just a prank, says Wheeler law enforcement. But the bank hires Jake Samson and his ever-sharp Watson, Rosie Vicente to find out who made the unauthorized withdrawal. As a storm brutalizes Wheeler, a bank employee slips in the mud and falls to her death.

SUICIDE KING

Jake's never been a big fan of politics, but Rosie invites him to a posh California fundraiser for an energetic gubernatorial candidate of the liberal underdog Vivo party, and Jake can't resist. It's all fun and political games until the candidate’s aide finds her boss in her backyard, hanging naked from an acacia tree. The police rule the death a suicide, but Jake and the aide suspect foul play, and she hires Jake to find the culprit. He finds campaign shenanigans, affairs, a possible German mafia connection, and more danger than our hero could possibly have imagined.

ROYAL FLUSH

Laid-back, unlicensed PI Jake Samson is understandably nervous about infiltrating a local Marin County neo-Nazi group called the Aryan Command. After all, he is Jewish. But when the doe-eyed teenage goddaughter of his oldest friend begs him to help her boyfriend--harebrained, reformed skinhead Royal Subic--Jake finds he can't "just say no."

[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free thread for a new Wildside Press freebie:

Wildside Press Presents: Discover A New Author: Richard Deming contains 2 short stories by the late pulp mystery author.

[sufue]

The RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN BRITISH MYSTERY SERIES BOXED SET: BOOKS 1 TO 4 by Geraldine Evans has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US, so if you missed it when it was free, you can still get it at a pretty good price.

Info in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3350131

[sufue]

And a couple more now at $1.99...

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008JVJHRY

Spoiler:

A wealthy general dies in his club, surrounded by fellow veterans—and Lord Peter must battle to solve the case

Even the Bellona Club’s most devoted members would never call it lively. Its atmosphere is that of a morgue—or, at best, a funeral parlor—and on Armistice Day the gloom is only heightened. Veterans of the Great War gather at the Bellona not to hash over old victories, but to stare into their whiskies and complain about old injuries, shrinking pensions, and the lingering effects of shell shock. Though he acts jolly, Lord Peter Wimsey finds the holiday grim. And this Armistice Day, death has come to join the festivities.

The aged General Fentiman—a hero of the Crimean War—expires sitting up in his favorite chair. Across town, his sister dies on the same day, throwing the General’s half-million-pound inheritance into turmoil. As the nation celebrates and suspicions run riot, Lord Peter must discover what kind of soldier would have the nerve to murder a general.

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is the 5th book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, but you may enjoy the series by reading the books in any order.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College.

Hangman's Holiday (short stories including both Lord Peter and Montague Egg)
link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008JVJDP0

Spoiler:

A trove of short stories featuring 2 of the Jazz Age’s most famous sleuths

In the annals of mystery writing, Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg are among the most memorable detectives. Lord Peter—noble by birth, brilliant by nature—is a fly in the ointment of criminals across Britain, turning up whenever the police ask him to lend his quick wit and keen eye to an investigation. Montague Egg is a free-spirited figure, a traveling wine salesman with an unfortunate habit of stumbling over murder scenes. Both are inimitably charming, and neither has ever failed to catch his man.

In this collection of stories, the 2 detectives confront cat killers, American zombies, and—most horrible of all—a poisoned bottle of fine old port. Several decades after their first publication, mystery maven Dorothy L. Sayers’s chilling puzzles remain as engaging as ever.

Hangman’s Holiday is the 9th book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, but you may enjoy the series by reading the books in any order.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College.

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Also $1.99 is Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers it seems

https://www.amazon.com/Strong-Poison...dp/B008JVJKOY/

[sufue]

I am on the email list for Margery Allingham's US publishers, and just got an email announcing the second Margery Allingham box set, and indicating that it will be on sale through the weekend only for $2.99. I myself already have all three of the titles, and the price of $2.99 for the three is not any better than the $0.99 each that they tend to be discounted at from time to time - but is better than the $3.99 each that seems to be the normal price. In any case, if you don't have any of these, this may be a convenient way to pick up three at once.

Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, The Case of the Late Pig

link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LW81Z82

Spoiler:

“The best of mystery writers” – The New Yorker

Flowers for the Judge

Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar.

All eyes are on the other partners at the firm – cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise – and all rumours hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades earlier.

Desperate to salvage their reputation, the cousins turn to Albert Campion – but will his investigations clear the Barnabas family name, or besmirch it forever?

Death of a Ghost

John Sebastian Lafcadio’s ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling as his own death.

A set of twelve sealed paintings is left in the hands of his widow, together with the instruction that she unveil one canvas each year before a carefully selected audience.

Albert Campion is invited to join a cast of gadabouts, muses, and socialites to witness the eighth unveiling but they are treated instead to a murder. The lights go down, and a young man is stabbed to death.

Campion must get to work on the baffling case, with its long – suspiciously long – line-up of possible killers and soon finds himself having to face his dearest enemy…

The Case of the Late Pig

Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral. Soon other corpses start to turn up, just as Peter’s body goes missing. It takes all Campion’s coolly incisive powers of detection to unravel the crime.

The Case of the Late Pig is, uniquely, narrated by Campion himself. In Allingham’s inimitable style, high drama sits neatly beside pitch perfect black comedy. A heady mix of murder, romance, and the urbane detective’s own unglamorous past make this an unmissable Allingham mystery.

[sufue]

If you didn't bite on Love Lies Bleeding at $4.99, it's now $0.99 as a US Kindle Countdown deal - for about 1 1/2 more days. Link same as in the post below.

Originally Posted by sufue

Five titles by Edmund Crispin just dropped from $6.99 to $4.99 in the US Kindle store, no idea for how long. That's not much of a sale, but Crispin is a pretty classic UK mystery author, and so I thought I'd post them. While looking, I also noticed that another Crispin title is only £0.99 in the Kindle UK store, so there's a link to that one too.

Swan Song
Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Swan-Song-Gerv...dp/B00JIWJG8I/

Love Lies Bleeding
Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Love-Lies-Blee...dp/B00G9AFE8S/

The Long Divorce
Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Long-Divorce-G...dp/B00KGF0CDO/

Buried for Pleasure
http://www.amazon.com/Buried-Pleasur...dp/B00JIUWDGC/

Holy Disorders
Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Disorders...dp/B00HRCBW2O/

The Moving Toyshop
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moving-Toysh...dp/B00QPTAU3M/

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by sufue

If you didn't bite on Love Lies Bleeding at $4.99, it's now $0.99 as a US Kindle Countdown deal - for about 1 1/2 more days. Link same as in the post below.

Odd book (after a peek at the sample only). 3 apostrophes missing in the first 4 paragraphs. And no quote marks around conversation. So, basically, all apostrophes and quote marks got removed? I haven't looked any further, but that's a bit distracting.

[mitford13]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Odd book (after a peek at the sample only). 3 apostrophes missing in the first 4 paragraphs. And no quote marks around conversation. So, basically, all apostrophes and quote marks got removed? I haven't looked any further, but that's a bit distracting.

Well, this is weird (but good news!), I saw the same thing on Look Inside but bought and DL'd Love Lies Bleeding and there are no problems. Single quotes for dialogue and apostrophes are there. I've seen authors complain before that their Look Inside has become messed up, so I guess just a strange Amazon glitch...

[badgoodDeb]

Oh! Yeah, actually it was the "Look Inside" that I checked. I didn't actually download the sample. I thought they were the same .....

[ekbell]

Originally Posted by sufue

I am on the email list for Margery Allingham's US publishers, and just got an email announcing the second Margery Allingham box set, and indicating that it will be on sale through the weekend only for $2.99. I myself already have all three of the titles, and the price of $2.99 for the three is not any better than the $0.99 each that they tend to be discounted at from time to time - but is better than the $3.99 each that seems to be the normal price. In any case, if you don't have any of these, this may be a convenient way to pick up three at once.

Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, The Case of the Late Pig

link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LW81Z82

It's also currently available at Amazon.ca for $3.92 unlike the first box set and those particular versions of the individual books. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01...2?tag=mr060-20

[sufue]

If you somehow haven't acquired all of the Talba Wallis titles by Julie Smith via previous sales/freebies, she has an omnibus of all four books, with a bonus short story, on US Kindle Countdown at $0.99 for about 1 1/2 more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EKKIDMM

Spoiler:

MYSTERY FICTION'S MOST DYNAMIC DETECTIVE DUO--IN A BOXED SET!
Now you can get the entire 4-book Talba Wallis series by Edgar-Award winning author Julie Smith (plus bonus short story) at an irresistible price. Talba, aka poetess Baroness de Pontalba, has the beauty, the brains, the computer savvy, the poetic soul, the youth, the right demographic, and the sass. Eddie Valentino’s got the detective agency. Also a short fuse and yes, wisdom. Not only do they make it work, they’ve got chemistry.

“The quirky pleasure of watching the Baroness strut her stuff is worth the price of admission.” —Houston Chronicle

Vol. 1: LOUISIANA HOTSHOT

In Louisiana Hotshot, their job is to hunt down a sociopath and pedophile who’s molested the fourteen-year-old daughter of their client, hangs out on the ragged edges of the rap and recording industries, and has more powerful allies than a Cabinet member.

But both detectives have unfinished business from the past—in Eddie’s case, something he deeply regrets; in Talba’s, a personal mystery, one so frightening no one will help her investigate. But she knows she won’t sleep till she solves it—and the truth will change her forever.

Vol. 2: LOUISIANA BIGSHOT

The hottest detective duo in New Orleans is going to need every skill and ounce of courage they can summon in this intricate tale of a decades-old conspiracy only now coming home to roost, with the murder of Talba’s friend Babalu Maya. Babalu is actually Clayton Robineau, daughter of the local banker in a small Louisiana town that bears her name, a town buried under the weight of its own malevolent past.

As Talba and Eddie investigate, they find that something terrible happened to Clayton as a child, an injury—both pscyhic and physical--so bizarre, so shameful and damning that almost anyone in town would kill to cover it up.

Vol. 3: LOUISIANA LAMENT

One stormy day Talba gets an emergency call from Janessa, the sister she barely knows, and arrives to find a body floating in a swimming pool—the mortal husk of Allyson Brown, known in New Orleans literary circles as the Girl Gatsby. Like Gatsby, Allyson was one of those mysterious rich people who move to town, give amazing parties, and seem made of moonbeams.

Investigating, Talba finds the reality behind the Gatsby glamour. Allyson was a con artist who neglected her children, ignored her bills, and lied like a Ponzi schemer. But she wasn’t the only bad actor on the local literary scene. Fellow poet Rashad leads Talba a merry chase, leaving a trail of clues in the form of poetry, while novelists engage in fisticuffs, unseemly preening, and unforgivable arrogance.

The Baroness discovers just how seamy, petty, and downright murderous her fellow literati can be.

Vol. 4: P.I. ON A HOT TIN ROOF

YOUR LAWYER NEEDS YOU TO BAIL HER OUT? ISN'T THAT KIND OF BACKWARDS?

So thinks PI Talba Wallis, on her way to Parish Prison—and indeed something’s badly amiss.
New Orleans’ most dynamic detective duo have a personal interest in this one—Eddie’s lawyer daughter Angie’s been set up for a drug bust.

Talba embeds herself in the house of prominent Judge Buddy Champagne as a spy, and uncovers plenty of evidence the judge is dirty—but she doesn't count on how involved she was going to get—especially with Buddy’s 14-year-old daughter Lucy.

There are plenty of mysterious twists and turns on the way to an ending guaranteed to surprise—but the real joy here is in the relationships.

BONUS Talba Wallis Mystery Short Story-- KID TROMBONE!

The Big Easy’s premier jazz singer, Queenie Feran, thinks there’s more to her ex-husband’s death than an accidental overdose, and she hires PI and poet Talba Wallis--AKA the Baroness de Pontalba--to uncover the truth.

[sufue]

Long Time Coming is a non-series title by Robert Goddard. Per SYKM, it won/was a finalist for a couple of awards.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0036S4E78

Spoiler:

A classic thriller with Goddard's trademark plot twists.

In Antwerp in 1939, a Jewish diamond trader flees Nazi Europe, leaving his priceless collection of Picasso paintings and diamonds with a friend who takes them to London. The boat he flees on sinks, leaving no survivors. Fast forward to 1976 when his penniless family tries to track down the missing paintings. A classic thriller with Goddard's trademark plot twists.