FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[rbruce1314]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Free in US only

1886

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4223

Worth getting. "Of its time" in many ways, but a very satisfying read for those well into 'golden age' mysteries. In fact, many of Fergus Hume's later works were far too decade-specific (poor dear girls who 'cannot marry because of my terrible secret') and twee. But this one is excellent.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab - free
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0167TSWEI

(Amazon says this was "the bestselling crime novel of the nineteenth century."

*****

It and Other Stories (Early Continental Op, vol. 2) - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EW5P4HC

(It doesn't say what stories are offered.)

FREE now ended!

[sufue]

The Beckoning Lady, apa The Estate of the Beckoning Lady, is the 18th title (per SYKM, at least, depending on how/if you count short story collections and the ilk) in the Albert Campion series by Margery Allingham. It is a US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about the next 12 hours. (Allingham's Ipso-published titles in the US never seem to go on Countdown for very long, like maybe one day...)

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LJ1D7K4

Spoiler:

Private detective Albert Campion's glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand's fabulous summer party a murder is discovered and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motives, suspicion and deception.

Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic Suffolk village, but it is a less romantic peril than on Mr Campion’s first visit, more than twenty years ago.

‘Margery Allingham has precious few peers and no superiors.’ - The Sunday Times

‘Allingham’s work is always of the first rank.’ – New York Times

‘Unforgettable.’ – A.S. Byatt

This is a stand-alone title within Margery Allingham’s Albert Campion series. However, if you wish to read the books in the order that they were written please follow the link below to have a look at the order of publication:
http://www.margeryallingham.org.uk/b...aphy.htm#Books


GET A FREE PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED SHORT STORY BY MARGERY ALLINGHAM, AND EXCLUSIVE MARGERY ALLINGHAM MATERIAL

Margery Allingham loved to build relationships with her readers, and whether you are new to Allingham or an established fan sign up to the Margery Allingham mailing list (via the link below) to be occasionally sent updates on new editions and other news relating to her.
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[sufue]

Suspect is the second (Amaz blurb) or fourth (SYKM) in the Detective Mark Pemberton series by Nicholas Rhea. It is on US Kindle Countdown at $0.99 for about the next 6 1/2 days. (Unlike Ipso above, Endeavour Press countdowns are usually for a week or so...)

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016XXD54K

Spoiler:

Detective Superintendent Mark Pemberton wants to solve the 15 year old murder of Muriel Brown before he retires.

Pemberton is well liked and respected in the force, yet a dark and thrilling mystery unravels under his watch when one of his detectives is replaced by Inspector Hadley.

Vic Hadley has been on sick leave and needs undemanding work - so handling the admin for the murder case seemed ideal.

He is left in charge of processing data for the case and seems to be productive and content with his role… for the time being.

However, some members of the force are unsettled by this new addition to their branch.

It is public knowledge that Hadley had shot and killed a man during an armed raid, and the subsequent allegations of murder and a cover-up had caused his breakdown.

Initially Pemberton is willing to accept Hadley’s version of events and makes him feel welcome and supported.

However the rumours surrounding Hadley refuse to go away, some known criminals regularly voice their hostility towards him and the press have sensationalised the matter.

The investigation that followed the shooting seems to be inconclusive and there are plenty of people who think Hadley has a lot to answer for.

Police officers don’t think he is to be trusted.

Suddenly Hadley’s withdrawn and lonely lifestyle causes alarm and in order to satisfy himself of Hadley’s innocence, Pemberton decides to investigate the man’s past.

He finds himself having to reevaluate his personal and professional attitude as further deaths are discovered and new evidence emerges concerning Hadley …

[GA Russell]

Frankenstein (uncensored) - free
https://www.amazon.com/FRANKENSTEIN-...dp/B018LJYKLQ/

(I wonder what was censored.)

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Frankenstein (uncensored) - free
https://www.amazon.com/FRANKENSTEIN-...dp/B018LJYKLQ/

(I wonder what was censored.)

She tried to make the story a bit more conservative, so she revised the edition, along with adding a new preface.

'Censored' is probably the wrong word, or at least a word today that I associate with material withheld under pressure.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Frankenstein (uncensored) - free
https://www.amazon.com/FRANKENSTEIN-...dp/B018LJYKLQ/

(I wonder what was censored.)

Not censored, just re-written. It's explained in the book's description on Amazon.

[GA Russell]

Thanks Drib and Harry!

[GA Russell]

The Penguin Pool Murder (Hildegarde Withers) - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CHW6742

[ATDrake]

Some mystery/thriller bargains you might want to consider picking up while Kobo Canada's promotion for 5000 points for combined purchases of at least $25 CAD total is still available for the rest of the day. Prices available in Canada & the US, and likely matched at other stores as well.

@ $1.99 each from Soho Press (couponable/eligible for extra 10% VIP discount in Canada, but not the US):

• Ghost Month by Asian Literary Award winner Ed Lin (SYKM, Wikipedia), 1st in his Taipei Night Market series starring a food stall owner in Taiwan.
• Jade Lady Burning by Martin Límon (SYKM), 1st in his Sueño & Bascomb series starring US military police officers in South Korea during the 1970s.
• Outsider in Amsterdam by the late Dutch author Janwillem van de Wetering (SYKM, Wikipedia), 1st in his Grijpstra & de Gier series starring police officers in Amsterdam, a very long-running series that was quite popular in the Netherlands, enough to have a few screen adaptations. This installment takes place during the 1970s, when it was originally published. I bought and read this a while ago, and it was okay and interesting in a retro sort of way.
• Eye for an Eye by T. Frank Muir (SYKM), 1st in his Andy Gilchrist series starring a DI in Scotland.
• Those We Left Behind by Northern Irish author Stuart Neville (SYKM, Wikipedia), 1st in his Serena Flanagan series starring a DCI in Belfast (Kobo gives a series order of 5th in the Belfast Novels, which seems to continue the numbering from an earlier 4-novel series starring a different DI in the same city, which garnered multiple award noms).

@ $1.99 each (non-couponable):

• The Hanging Girl by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen (SYKM, Wikipedia), 6th in his highly popular Department Q series starring cold case detective Carl Mørck and his eccentric assistants in Copenhagen, out from Penguin. I really liked this series when I read the lot of them thus far a while ago. The series is such that while there's a slow-burning secondary case which develops throughout the novels, it still hasn't been resolved as of this installment, which IMHO you can safely read standalone if you don't mind missing out on a bit of personal development.
• Busting Vegas: A True Story of Monumental Excess, Sex, Love, Violence, and Beating the Odds by Ben Mezrich (SYKM), one of those thinly-veiled true heist stories centred around casino gaming. You may have gotten this previously via the HarperCollins Humble Bundle long ago, as I did. It's an okay read, IMHO.
• A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear (SYKM), 8th in her popular and highly acclaimed Maisie Dobbs series, starring a psychologist during the interwar years of the 1920s-30s in the UK, out from HarperCollins. SYKM says that this one alone picked up three award nominations.
• Sandstorm by bestselling thriller author James Rollins (SYKM), 1st in his Sigma Force series of action thrillers, out from HarperCollins.

@ $2.99 each from HarperCollins (non-couponable):

• Death on the River Walk by Carolyn Hart (SYKM), 5th in her Henrie O series starring a septuagenarian reporter in South Carolina. This was a finalist for Agatha Award for Best Novel, according to SYKM.
• Dead Men's Dust by Matt Hilton (SYKM), 1st in his Joe Hunter series of espionage/action thrillers starring a British ex-counterterrorism operative turned vigilante for hire in the US, according to SYKM. This one was a finalist for the Thriller Award for Best First Novel.

@ $3.99 from Penguin (non-couponable):

• Never End by Swedish author Åke Edwardson (SYKM, Wikipedia), 4th in his DI Erik Winter series starring an unusually happy and well-adjusted Nordic Noir protagonist in Gothenburg. This is a little on the pricey side (but it has its own Wikipedia entry!), but the other novels are much more expensive (though a few more of them can currently be gotten for prices from $5.99-$7.99 CAD as compared to the $10+ CAD they normally cost) and I rarely see these drop on sale.

Several more mystery/thriller authors can also be gotten via Canadian publisher House of Anansi's month-long sale featuring Canadian and imported authors at up to 80% off their usually somewhat expensive regular prices. Most titles are $3-$4, and there's stuff from award-nominated Canadian mystery authors Ian Hamilton (SYKM) & Alen Mattich (SYKM), British authors Elena Forbes (SYKM), Danish author Jakob Melander (SYKM), Swedish author Stefan Ahnhem (SYKM), and more.

Also, for francophone mystery/thriller readers:

@ $1.99: Le premier appelé by Christian Ego, a WWII aftermath murder mystery case with espionage elements tying a case from 2003 to some events in 1941. This won the Prix du Polar Historique 2012, according to the cover banner.
@ $4.99 each (normally priced in the $9-$15 CAD range, you can also redeem these for 2800 points, which is rare for Francophone books):

• Terreur domestique & L'affaire Mélodie Cormier by French Canadian author Guillaume Morrissette (Wikipedia), two police procedural thrillers starring inspector Jean-Sébastien Héroux in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Terreur domestique appears to have won the Prix du Premier Polar 2015, according to the squinty text on the cover banner.
• Dix petits hommes blancs (which looks to be a play on the original title of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None) and Machine God by French-Canadian author Jean-Jacques Pelletier (Wikipedia), who often puts sfnal elements into his thriller novels. These are unrelated standalones, as far as I can tell.

Also, a large portion of the works of multiple award-winning French-Canadian author Martin Michaud (Wikipedia FR) are on sale for $4.99 (couponable) as part of publisher Goelette's up to 70% off sale on québécois thrillers ongoing until November 4th, including several of his Arthur Ellis Award-nominated mysteries set in Quebec.

[sufue]

Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries, Volume One contains the first three full-length titles in the (you-guessed-it) Captain Lacey series by Ashley Gardner (pen name for Jennifer Ashley). It also contains two short stories. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US, not sure why or for how long.

The first title in the book, The Hanover Square Affair, is individually a long-term freebie at Kindle US, but you're still getting two more full-length books and two short stories for $0.99, which is a pretty good deal. These also have all been available at attractive prices at Smashwords at various times in the past, so check carefully before you buy.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006YZ0OOM

Spoiler:

Boxed set: Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries, Volume One, by Ashley Gardner

A collection of the first three novels in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries series plus two Captain Lacey short stories first published in mystery magazines.

This book bundle includes:

The Hanover Square Affair (full-length novel)

A Regimental Murder (full-length novel)

The Glass House (full-length novel)

The Gentleman’s Walking Stick (two short stories)

Meet Captain Gabriel Lacey, a half-pay cavalry officer who returns to Regency London with little money and no purpose, but with a sense of honor and fairness. He’s pulled into a search for a missing young woman, and thus begins investigating crime, using his status as a gentleman but a poor one to cross the boundaries between the top of society and the working class of the back streets.

In The Hanover Square Affair, a missing girl and horrific corpse plunge Captain Lacey into the dark underworld of Regency London.

In A Regimental Murder Captain Lacey is on hand to save the life of a beautiful widow; he then investigates the death of her husband, a colonel who had been accused of murdering a cavalry officer during the Peninsular War.

In The Glass House, Lacey investigates the death of a barrister’s young wife, and links her to a notorious brothel where the haut ton play.

Two short stories finish off the collection. In “The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald,” Lacey is asked to locate a man’s missing daughter, though he senses that the family would be just as happy for her to remain missing. In “The Gentleman’s Walking Stick,” Lacey untangles a web of deceit involving a respectable society man, his only clue being a missing walking stick.

Join Captain Lacey and his friends as he investigates intrigue, murder, and villainy from the plush ballrooms of Mayfair to the darker streets of Regency London.

[sufue]

Collusion is the second title in the Jack Lennon/Belfast series by Stuart Neville and The Final Silence is the fourth. Both have dropped to $3.49 at Kindle US, not a great sale price for backlist, but Soho Crime titles tend to be pricey here most of the time (other than first-in-series), so I thought I'd post them anyway.

Collusion
link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HW7EBA

Spoiler:

A merciless assassin stalks Belfast and Detective Inspector Jack Lennon has been assigned to the case. As Lennon unravels a far-reaching conspiracy involving collusion among Loyalists, IRA members, and law enforcement, he discovers that his estranged former lover and their daughter are in the killer's cross-hairs. To catch the assassin and save the only family he has, Lennon blurs the line between friend and enemy by teaming up with an enigmatic killer named Fegan.

The Final Silence
link: https://www.amazon.com/Final-Silence.../dp/B00K4BA6W2

Spoiler:

Belfast, Northern Ireland: Rea Carlisle has inherited a house from an uncle she never knew. It doesn't take her long to clear out the dead man's remaining possessions, but one room remains stubbornly locked. When Rea finally forces it open, she discovers inside a chair, a table—and a leather-bound book, its pages filled with locks of hair, fingernails: a catalogue of victims.

Horrified, Rea wants to go straight to the police but her family intervenes, fearing that scandal will mar her politician father's public image. Rea turns to the only person she can think of: disgraced police inspector Jack Lennon. He is facing suspension from the force and his new supervisor, DCI Serena Flanagan, is the toughest cop he's ever met. But a gruesome murder brings the dead man's terrifying journal to the top of the Belfast police's priority list.

[sufue]

EDIT: I just noticed ATDrake's post two above, with another title in another series by Stuart Neville. This made me go take a look at Kobo Canada for these titles, and when I looked, I found the first four titles in this series are all $2.99 (or $2.69 w. VIP). So if you are willing to travel, they are a much better deal at Kobo Canada than Amazon US. (Note you have to already be in the Kobo Canada store before using these links...)

• The Ghosts of Belfast, #1: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...sts-of-belfast
• Collusion, #2: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/collusion-3
• Stolen Souls, #3: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/stolen-souls-6
• The Final Silence, #4: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...-final-silence

Originally Posted by sufue

Collusion is the second title in the Jack Lennon/Belfast series by Stuart Neville and The Final Silence is the fourth. Both have dropped to $3.49 at Kindle US, not a great sale price for backlist, but Soho Crime titles tend to be pricey here most of the time (other than first-in-series), so I thought I'd post them anyway.

Collusion
link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HW7EBA

The Final Silence
link: https://www.amazon.com/Final-Silence.../dp/B00K4BA6W2

[sufue]

A Banquet of Consequences is the 19th and most recent in the Inspector Lynley series by Elizabeth George. It is part of the biggish Kindle US daily deal sale today at $2.99, which is pretty good IMO for a most recent title.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Banquet-Conse...dp/B00L9B7CGE/

Spoiler:

“George’s mystery unfolds with great psychological depth, finely drawn characters and gorgeous portraits of the English countryside. . . . [George] is an essential writer of popular fiction today.” —The Washington Post

The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s award-winning series returns with another stunning crime drama featuring Scotland Yard members Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers.

The unspoken secrets and buried lies of one family rise to the surface in Elizabeth George’s newest novel of crime, passion, and tragic history. As Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the London angle of an ever more darkly disturbing case, his partner, Barbara Havers, is looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit.

The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind who will have to deal with its unintended consequences—could there be a link between the young man’s leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?

After various issues with her department, Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter gives her a connection to the unsolved Cambridge murder, Barbara begs Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime, knowing one mistake could mean the end of her career.

Full of shocks, intensity, and suspense from the first page to the last, A Banquet of Consequences reveals both Lynley and Havers under mounting pressure to solve a case both complicated and deeply disturbing.

[sufue]

Ditto for X, which is the most recent title in the Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton, although it's $3.99, not $2.99, but still okay in my book for a most recent. And, I didn't even have to count or look at the blurb to know that this is the 24th in the series .

link: https://www.amazon.com/X-Kinsey-Mill...dp/B00TY3ZKJA/

Spoiler:

Of #1 New York Times–bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR’s Maureen Corrigan said, “Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters.” With only two letters left, Grafton’s many devoted readers will share that sentiment.

X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss.

X: The shortest entry in Webster’s Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. The most graphically dramatic letter. Notoriously tricky to pronounce: think xylophone.

X: The twenty-fourth letter in the English alphabet.

Sue Grafton’s X: Perhaps her darkest and most chilling novel, it features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this sociopath. The test is whether Kinsey can prove her case against him before she becomes his next victim.

P.S. Clearly Maureen Corrigan has not thought of AA for Aardvark...perhaps set in the Santa Teresa zoo...