FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[Fbone]

Black Ice (Frank Harper Mysteries #2) by Greg Enslen is FREE at Amazon today. Gypsy Publications 2015. GR 4.14

https://smile.amazon.com/Black-Frank...by+Greg+Enslen

[badgoodDeb]

Drat! Wrong Black Ice. I had a free copy of the Harry Bosch (character) Black Ice with my first kindle. It's no longer in my amazon records. I wanted to read it again!

[rbruce1314]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Black Ice (Frank Harper Mysteries #2) by Greg Enslen is FREE at Amazon today. Gypsy Publications 2015. GR 4.14

https://smile.amazon.com/Black-Frank...by+Greg+Enslen

and UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Frank...ce+greg+enslen

[sufue]

Free again at Kindle US.

Originally Posted by Fbone

Talking to the Dead (Fiona Griffiths #1) by Harry Bingham is FREE today. Delacorte Press 2012. GR 3.72

http://smile.amazon.com/Talking-Dead...4461376&sr=1-1

Spoiler:

A crime you'll always remember, A detective you'll never forget

A young prostitute lies dead in a Cardiff squat. Her six-year-old lies dead beside her. It looks like an ordinary murder scene . . . except that a millionaire's platinum bank card lies among the debris. How did it come to be there? And is there more to this case than meets the eye?

Investigating the case is rookie Detective Constable Fiona Griffiths - a new recruit with a repuation for being deadly smart, more than ordinarily committed . . . and unsettlingly odd. As she starts to follow up the clue left by that platinum bank card, she finds the disturbing hints that suggest a truly appalling crime has been committed - and release the demons of her own dark past.

Praise for the Fiona Griffiths mystery series

Talking To The Dead was the smash-hit launch that introduced British detective, Fiona Griffiths - the most compelling female protagonist in contemporary crime fiction / mystery.

“Gritty, compelling . . . a procedural unlike any other you are likely to read this year.”—USA Today

“With Detective Constable Fiona ‘Fi’ Griffiths, Harry Bingham . . . finds a sweet spot in crime fiction . . . think Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander . . . Denise Mina’s ‘Paddy’ Meehan [or] Lee Child’s Jack Reacher. . . . The writing is terrific.”—The Boston Globe

“The mystery-thriller genre is already so staffed with masterminds that it’s hard to make room for another. But along comes a book like Talking to the Dead, and suddenly an unadvertised opening is filled. . . . [This] has the feel of something fresh and compelling.”—New York Daily News

“A stunner with precision plotting, an unusual setting, and a deeply complex [female] protagonist . . . We have the welcome promise of more books to come about Griffiths.”—The Seattle Times

“Recommended highly . . . [a] riveting procedural thriller.”—Library Journal (starred review)

Chosen as a Crime Book of the Year by the Seattle Times and the Boston Globe If you're looking for a crime thriller series to keep you hooked, then go no further: you've just found it.

[sufue]

A Drink Before the War is the first in the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro series by Dennis Lehane. I don't know why, but for some reason I really like the title, even though I haven't read the book.

Drink has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003GYEH2E

Spoiler:

As richly complex and brutal as the terrain it depicts, here is the mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir -- and introduced Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigators weaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.

A cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find the missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. As Kenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's about justice. About right and wrong. But in Boston, finding the truth isn't just a dirty business ... it's deadly.

[sufue]

All seven of the titles in Leighton Gage's Chief Inspector Mario Silva series have dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US, except the first, which is $1.99. I don't have time to post all the titles/blurbs, but here's a link for all seven:

link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...ge&price=0-300

[sufue]

And same for Magdalen Nabb (14 titles) and Stuart Neville (5 titles) - all dropped to $2.99 at the moment at Kindle US. (Several of the Neville titles, at least, were on sale not too long ago, so check carefully...)

Nabb link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/&se...bb&price=0-300

Neville link (with a few strays): https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/&se...le&price=0-300

Originally Posted by sufue

All seven of the titles in Leighton Gage's Chief Inspector Mario Silva series have dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US, except the first, which is $1.99. I don't have time to post all the titles/blurbs, but here's a link for all seven:

link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...ge&price=0-300

[GA Russell]

Arson Plus and Other Stories - Dashiell Hammett - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Arson-Plus-Ot...dp/B01EW5P4WC/

(The earliest Continental Op stories. 100 pages. I don't see a list of the titles.)

[Tarana]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Drat! Wrong Black Ice. I had a free copy of the Harry Bosch (character) Black Ice with my first kindle. It's no longer in my amazon records. I wanted to read it again!

It should be in your Amazon records. Double check your spelling of Connelly. They restored a book that I had deleted over a year ago and had purchased in 2010. I would lend you my copy but it doesn't look like I have the option to loan. (Love Harry Bosch)

[badgoodDeb]

It could have been the spelling, but the more recent book did come up. (Black Echo was acquired more recently, though it's book #1). So I think I spelled it right. (That time. Yes, I have trouble with that author.) Besides, I went ahead and purchased it the same day I wrote that note. It didn't occur to me to gripe to customer service about a free book.

[sufue]

Downfall is the most recent title (2016) in JA Jance's Joanna Brady series. It has dropped to $3.99 at Kindle US, a really good price (IMO) for a most recent title.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017R4JVOC

Spoiler:

Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady returns in this outstanding new mystery set in the beautiful desert country of the Southwest.

With a baby on the way, sudden deaths in the family from which to recover, a re-election campaign looming, and a daughter heading off for college, Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady has her hands full when a puzzling new case hits her department, demanding every resource she has at her disposal.

Two women have fallen to their deaths from a small nearby peak, referred to by Bisbee locals as Geronimo. What’s the connection between these two women? Is this a case of murder/suicide or is it a double homicide? And if someone else is responsible, is it possible that the perpetrator may, even now, be on the hunt for another victim?

[sufue]

The Mind Readers is the 24th (per SYKM, if I counted right, and depending on how you count short story collections and the ilk...) in the Albert Campion series by Margery Allingham. It is a repeat US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about 3 3/4 more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LSOQUCY

Spoiler:

The ancient hamlet of Saltey, once the haunt of smugglers, now hides a secret rich and mysterious enough to trap all who enter… and someone in town is willing to terrorise, murder and raise the very devil to keep that secret to themselves.

When a transistor thought to be the key to telepathic communication is found, Albert Campion is called to sort fact from fiction. But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and whether they stole it or invented it, there are others who will kill to get hold of it.

Private detective Albert Campion faces as deadly a challenge as any in his career.

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

"Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. Everything she writes has a definite shape...each book has its own separate and distinctive background" (Agatha Christie)

"Miss Allingham has a strong, well controlled sense of humour, a power of suggesting character with a few touches and an excellent English style. She has a sense of the fantastic, and is never dull" (Times Literary Supplement)

"The real queen of crime" (Guardian)

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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[HarryT]

Originally Posted by sufue

The Mind Readers is the 24th (per SYKM, if I counted right, and depending on how you count short story collections and the ilk...) in the Albert Campion series by Margery Allingham. It is a repeat US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about 3 3/4 more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LSOQUCY

I'd note that this is perhaps the weakest of the Campion series: a rather silly story involving telepathy. I honestly wouldn't bother with it unless you're a series completest (as I am ).

[sufue]

The Gold Frame is the third in the Alexander Gold series by Herbert Resnicow. I, at least, have not seen this one on sale before - it has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US. Strangely enough for an Endeavour Press title, it's not on Countdown, so not sure how long this price will last, but Endeavour Press price drops/freebies usually don't last too long (but often repeat). At this point, I've now seen four of the five (per SYKM) titles be $0.99 or free in the fairly recent past.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LBFEQH0

Spoiler:

‘A sequel to The Gold Solution, this is for those who want a witty, intelligent, challenging story.’ - Library Journal

Can the Golds solve the unsolvable?

Somehow the unassuming Alexander Gold and his wife Norma keep getting mixed up with bizarre, and sometimes dangerous, criminal cases.

Becoming increasingly fearful, Norma asks her neighbour Burton about the possibility of sourcing a gun, but instead of coming away with a weapon, the Golds soon find themselves handed another case…

Burton soon reveals a mystery that involves Vermeer’s Young Girl in a Turban and a woman named Hannelore Becker.

Hannelore has recreated Vermeers with such skill and knowledge and love, that museums became involved.

And so did Daniel Pereira Belmont: eighty years old and one of the richest men in New York and the supposed owner of the Fine Arts Museum of New York.

Norma is suspicious. No one owns a museum that size, but Burton promises that Belmont will reveal all himself the next day.

But then the museum’s flamboyant director is murdered over his lunch of oysters and champagne.

Could the murder and the painting be connected?

The Golds find this murder is practically flawless; an unsolvable crime.

But something is afoot and just what does Hannelore Becker have to do with it?

So begins one of the Golds’ most challenging and extraordinary cases as they try to decipher what is mere suspicion and what is far more sinister.

The Gold Frame is a fascinating mystery and the third book in the Norma Alexander Gold Thriller series.

And, speaking of repeats, two other titles in the series are also at $0.99, again, not as Countdown deals, so not sure how long.

The Gold Solution, #1 (which was free not too long ago): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HBI5NOG/

The Gold Deadline, #2: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KA3VBQ8

[sufue]

Cockroaches is the second in the Inspector Harry Hole series by Jo Nesbo. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Cockroaches-S...dp/B00FO5YFX4/

Spoiler:

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Inspector Harry Hole heads to Thailand to investigate the murder of an ambassador. Look out for the latest Harry Hole novel, The Thirst, coming May 9, 2017.

When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case.

But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise, Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, trying to piece together the story of the ambassador’s death even though no one asked him to, and no one wants him to—not even Harry himself.