FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[sufue]

Per SYKM, Jar City is the first Inspector Erlendur title by Arnaldur Indridason that has been translated into English. (SYKM lists two earlier titles that have not been translated, at least so far...) Jar City has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US as part of the today's biggish Daily Deal sale.

link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YJEXGQ/

Spoiler:

From Gold Dagger Award--winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjavík thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur

When a lonely old man is found dead in his Reykjavík flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Inspector Erlendur discovers that many years ago the victim was accused, but not convicted, of an unsolved crime, a rape. Did the old man's past come back to haunt him? As Erlendur reopens this very cold case, he follows a trail of unusual forensic evidence, uncovering secrets that are much larger than the murder of one old man.

An international sensation, the Inspector Erlendur series has sold more than two million copies worldwide.

[sufue]

P.S. Probably worth taking a look at the whole US Kindle Daily Deal sale today, which offers "up to 80% off top-rated mysteries & thrillers". I only spotted a few I was interested in, the three I just listed above, but tastes vary and there are 3 pages of choices...

link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.ht...cId=1000677541

[curtw]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

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

(I wonder what was censored.)

If you're OK with abridgements, I'm really enjoying Brick Dracula and Frankenstein, for only 99 cents. I bought hard copies of the two Shakespeare volumes, but for only a buck, I'll take it.

[Little.Egret]

Endeavour Books, free

Spider Girl by Peter Lovesey is a reprint

First published by Cassell in 1980 as by "Peter Lear"

It's the early 1980s and 23-year-old Sarah Jordan, a PhD student at an American university, is studying spiders...

Sarah finds her studies so absorbing, that much of campus life seems to pass her by.

She barely registers her research assistant's interest in her, even though Don is the college Lothario and pursued by many female students.

Even Sarah's relationships with family and friends are perfunctory and distant, but that, it seems, is how she prefers to live.

When Sarah is filmed for a TV documentary about spiders, she meets a psychologist involved in the show, and the pair strike up a friendship.

As they spend more and more time together, Sarah realises that she wants more than friendship from Dr Cunningham and he gradually discovers just why Sarah is the way she is.

Peter Lovesey is the author of numerous crime novels. His novels include Wobble to Death (1970; part of the Sergeant Cribb series) and The Last Detective (1991; part of the Peter Diamond series).


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZKAPKJ/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01LZKAPKJ/
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01LZKAPKJ/

[Mort1997]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Endeavour Books, free

Spider Girl by Peter Lovesey is a reprint



https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZKAPKJ/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01LZKAPKJ/
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01LZKAPKJ/

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Spider-Gir...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Dead Man's Shadow (Mrs Stonier Mystery Book 2) by Anne Wilkinson

Spoiler:

1890, Stoke Newington

A new church is being built…

Although quite beautiful, it does not sit well with older members of the community, whoare all members of the Church of England.

The pastor, Tristan King, insists on calling the lord, ‘my father’ and preaches not from an altar, but on a dais with a golden throne to his followers, the brothers of the Ark of the Covenant .

And while some may object, others are strangely captivated by his message of hope...

Stoke Newington, present day

Will and Bella have just bought an old house, and Bella’s mother, Alex, has agreed to help do it up.

When the floorboards are torn up, she finds letters written by a man named Edward Barton, requesting deeds relating to a property called Gothic Hall.

She starts to investigate the site of the old house, and learns that bones were found nearby during some construction work.

There’s a mystery to be solved and if there’s one thing Alex likes, it’s a good mystery…

Tales of arranged marriages, conspiring families and dangerous liasons are soon unravelled, revealing the complicated relationship between Edward Barton and Harriet, a young heiress who longs to be free from her controlling brother.

Meanwhile, while conducting her research into the mystery of Edward and Harriet, Alex meets a forceful woman named Jane, who thinks she has a right to ownership of the church, now an important historic building.

She claims to be descended from the one of the founders and when Jane thinks Alex has the document she needs to prove her claim, things take a sinister turn.

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mans-S...ndeavour+press

US
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mans-Sha...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Dead-Mans-...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Dead-Mans-Shad...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Carved in Blood (Evan Lane Mystery Book 1) by E.R. Fallon

Spoiler:

Evelyn Lane had a complicated childhood…

That happens when your mother kills your best friend, then goes on to kill other young men.

Wanting a clean break, Evelyn joins the Navy and afterwards goes to college.

It is around that time that Evelyn becomes Evan Lane and fully embraces being a man.

Now, Evan lives in Seven Sisters, a big city a few states over from Freedom Village, where he grew up.

He has a lovely girlfriend Sammie, a dog named Paige and a job cleaning up crime sites.

No one knows he’s transgender, or that his mother was the serial killer Alice Lane.

And that’s just the way he wants it.

Until the bodies of young men start showing up and Evan learns they have a message for Evelyn carved in their flesh.

But Evan’s mother is in prison.

So who is killing young men in Seven Sisters?

One day Evan wakes to find that someone he thought he could trust has sold his story and also divulged information about the investigation.

When it goes viral, Chief Gilani is furious and he is suspended.

With time on his hands, Evan figures he can clear his name before things get any worse…

He travels to his hometown of Freedom Village seeking answers.

For the first time in twenty years, Evan sees his mother and learns she might be innocent after all.

And he might be in the killer’s sights.

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carved-Bloo...ndeavour+press

US
https://www.amazon.com/Carved-Blood-...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Carved-Blo...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Carved-Blood-E...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Background for Murder (Inspector Chaos Mystery Book 1) by Shelley Smith

Spoiler:

Dr. Maurice Royd, the head of a psychiatric hospital, is found slumped over his desk with his skull caved in.

But a lack of hard evidence leaves the local police stumped.

The difficulty is that there are too many people who could have murdered Dr. Royd, too many people who wished him dead.

Any one of that ‘bunch of crazies’ might have yielded to the impulse to do it.

Private Investigator Jacob Chaos is given the case by Scotland Yard.

Now time is of the essence for Chaos as he tries to get the job done discreetly, hushing up any possibility of a scandal.

But it seems there is quite a lot of funny business concerning the late Dr. Royd and digging any deeper seems to start stirring up trouble.

Before he knows it, Chaos inadvertently kick-starts a killing spree.

Racing against the clock with an ever growing list of suspects, Jacob Chaos must work to unravel the twisted skeins hiding the truth and catch the audacious murderer...

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

US
https://www.amazon.com/Background-Mu...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Background...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Background-Mur...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Hole and Corner: A Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

Spoiler:

Thief, kleptomaniac… or innocent victim of a malevolent plot to implicate her?

That’s Shirley Dale. First there had been the strange appearance of someone else’s pocketbook on her person as she was getting on a crowded bus one evening. The next night when she was dining with the attractive Anthony Leigh, the flashy little purse of another woman mysteriously turned up in Shirley’s own black hand-bag.

When she finds her employer’s diamond brooch in the hem of her coat, Shirley flees in panic to Anthony for the help she so desperately needs. Anthony’s devoted efforts to aid her uncover a sinister, fast-growing plan. Now Anthony and Shirley must clear her name and unmask her tormentor before her very life is in jeopardy.

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hole-Corner...icia+wentworth

US
Not available

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Hole-Corne...icia+wentworth

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Hole-Corner-Go...icia+wentworth

[HarryT]

Thanks, Mort. A good selection of books today!

[sufue]

Hopefully you got books 1-4 when that box set was free/$0.99, because it's back up to $4.99. Now, though, the next box set, RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN BOXED SET BOOKS 5-8 by Geraldine Evans has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US. Titles include:

• Absolute Poison
• Dying for You
• Bad Blood
• Love Lies Bleeding

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0186AAGL8

Spoiler:

'Entertaining and character-driven.'

*
For Readers who like cozy mysteries, humorous mysteries and police procedurals. And the first in the series, Dead Before Morning, is FREE!

*
Absolute Poison
Superstitious British Detective Joseph Rafferty is having a bad week -- not an unusual occurrence -- and he can’t help feeling trouble comes in threes. Also niggling in his mind is the fact that Llewellyn, his posh sergeant, has brought a ‘bargain’ suit from Rafferty’s Ma. Sure to be stolen goods, the suit is bound to drop Rafferty in it when the holier-than-thou Llewellyn wears it on his wedding day -- with the loathed, sharp-eyed, Superintendent Bradley amongst the guests . . .
*
Rafferty’s first premonition turns out to be accurate when a company manager is found dead at his desk. The tyrannical Barstaple had known full well that he was hated by most of the office. But did he really deserve to be poisoned? And so horribly.
*
Rafferty's week goes from bad to worse and worse again. And when you take the ‘bargain’ suit into the equation and Superintendent Bradley's anticipated reaction to this stolen piece of shmutter, the week really has gone to Hell in a handcart. And taken Rafferty with it. But maybe even Hell will be the better destination compared to the possibilities the Superintendent is sure to have in mind.
*
Dying For You
Detective Inspector Joe Rafferty manages to become chief suspect in his own double murder investigation. And all he’d been doing was looking for love…
*
It had been his sergeant's wedding that had brought home to him that, far from still being the 'Jack the Lad' of old, he was not only lonely, but in danger of turning into a sad old git. So, with his fortieth birthday on the horizon, he decides it's time to take the initiative.
*
To this end, he signs up with the Made in Heaven dating agency. Wary of Ma and his colleagues discovering his shameful secret, he persuades his more up-market cousin to let him borrow his identity. It's just unfortunate that the first two women with whom he strikes up a rapport should wind up murdered and with himself - or rather his alter ego - in the frame for the crimes.
*
Put in charge of the double murder investigation, Rafferty foresees plenty of difficulties ahead. Not least how he is to conduct the case without the witnesses pointing the finger and saying: 'But that's HIM. That's Nigel Blythe. The MURDERER!'
*
Bad Blood
A robbery gone wrong, Detective Joe Rafferty thought, when the latest murder victim, wealthy widow, Clara Mortimer was found battered to death in her home. Then Rafferty learned she wasn’t a widow at all – and her estranged husband was living in the same block under a false name.
*
But that's not the only suspicious aspect of the case: Clara Mortimer's family add another complication, not eased either by their several deceptions or by the difficulties in Rafferty's personal life, which, as always, seems to be guided by a malign fate and takes his eye off the investigatory ball. But could he help it if his automatic reaction when his live-in girlfriend Abra said she might be pregnant, wasn't exactly New Man?
*
Their investigation brings Rafferty and Llewellyn face to face with just how down and dirty families can be... and not just the families of murder victims.
*
Love Lies Bleeding
A most unlikely killer, is British Detective Joe Rafferty's immediate thought, when the slender and bloodied Felicity Raine stumbles into the police station and confesses to murdering her husband.
*
Rafferty thinks her even more unlikely a murderer when he meets her in-laws, and catches them out in several deceits. There is something peculiar going on, he is convinced. Because although Felicity isn't due to receive any financial benefit from her husband's death, others in the Raine family are.

Originally Posted by 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

[GA Russell]

Ellery Queen...

The Adventures of... - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-El...dp/B00B1MSI2I/

*****

The New Adventures of... - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/New-Adventure...dp/B00Z8POEUO/

[Wearever]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Endeavour Books, free

Spider Girl by Peter Lovesey is a reprint

First published by Cassell in 1980 as by "Peter Lear"

It's the early 1980s and 23-year-old Sarah Jordan, a PhD student at an American university, is studying spiders...

Sarah finds her studies so absorbing, that much of campus life seems to pass her by.

She barely registers her research assistant's interest in her, even though Don is the college Lothario and pursued by many female students.

Even Sarah's relationships with family and friends are perfunctory and distant, but that, it seems, is how she prefers to live.

When Sarah is filmed for a TV documentary about spiders, she meets a psychologist involved in the show, and the pair strike up a friendship.

As they spend more and more time together, Sarah realises that she wants more than friendship from Dr Cunningham and he gradually discovers just why Sarah is the way she is.

Peter Lovesey is the author of numerous crime novels. His novels include Wobble to Death (1970; part of the Sergeant Cribb series) and The Last Detective (1991; part of the Peter Diamond series).


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LZKAPKJ/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01LZKAPKJ/
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01LZKAPKJ/

Thanks for this !

[Wearever]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free on Amazon UK - Dead Man's Shadow (Mrs Stonier Mystery Book 2) by Anne Wilkinson

Spoiler:

1890, Stoke Newington

A new church is being built…

Although quite beautiful, it does not sit well with older members of the community, whoare all members of the Church of England.

The pastor, Tristan King, insists on calling the lord, ‘my father’ and preaches not from an altar, but on a dais with a golden throne to his followers, the brothers of the Ark of the Covenant .

And while some may object, others are strangely captivated by his message of hope...

Stoke Newington, present day

Will and Bella have just bought an old house, and Bella’s mother, Alex, has agreed to help do it up.

When the floorboards are torn up, she finds letters written by a man named Edward Barton, requesting deeds relating to a property called Gothic Hall.

She starts to investigate the site of the old house, and learns that bones were found nearby during some construction work.

There’s a mystery to be solved and if there’s one thing Alex likes, it’s a good mystery…

Tales of arranged marriages, conspiring families and dangerous liasons are soon unravelled, revealing the complicated relationship between Edward Barton and Harriet, a young heiress who longs to be free from her controlling brother.

Meanwhile, while conducting her research into the mystery of Edward and Harriet, Alex meets a forceful woman named Jane, who thinks she has a right to ownership of the church, now an important historic building.

She claims to be descended from the one of the founders and when Jane thinks Alex has the document she needs to prove her claim, things take a sinister turn.

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mans-S...ndeavour+press

US
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mans-Sha...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Dead-Mans-...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Dead-Mans-Shad...ndeavour+press

Thanks again Mort !

[sufue]

No One Lives Twice is the first in the Lexi Carmichael series by Julie Moffett. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/No-One-Lives-.../dp/B003U89RS0

Spoiler:

Get your geek on! Prepare for adventure with reformed hacker and trouble magnet Lexi Carmichael as she does whatever it takes to help the good guys win.

I'm Lexi Carmichael, geek extraordinaire. I spend my days stopping computer hackers at the National Security Agency. My nights? Those I spend avoiding my mother and eating cereal for dinner. Even though I work for a top-secret agency, I've never been in an exciting car chase, sipped a stirred (not shaken) martini, or shot a poison dart from an umbrella.

Until today, that is, when two gun-toting thugs popped up in my life and my best friend disappeared. So, I've enlisted the help of the Zimmerman twins—the reclusive architects of America's most sensitive electronic networks—to help me navigate a bewildering maze of leads to find her.

Along the way, my path collides with a sexy government agent and a rich, handsome lawyer, both of whom seem to have the hots for me. Hacking, espionage, sexy spy-men—it's a geek girl's dream come true. If it weren't for those gun-toting thugs…