FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[MickeyC]

Sean Black's Ryan Lock books 5,6 and 7 available on Kobo as a set for 99 cents. Kobo site here https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/3-a...UKWnBjZIjz17dw.

Also apparently available on Kindle for the same price

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - The 45% Hangover [A Logan and Steel novella] (Logan McRae Book 9) by Stuart MacBride

Spoiler:

It’s the night of the big Referendum, and all Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to do is find a missing ‘No’ campaigner. Should be easy enough…

But, as usual, DCI Steel has plans of her own. As the votes are counted there’s trouble brewing in the pubs and on the streets of Aberdeen.

Logan’s picked up a promising lead, but all is not quite what it seems, and things are about to go very, very wrong…

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hangover-Lo...J5ZAQP836RKWFV


Looks to be UK only

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - Done Deal by Tony Berry

Spoiler:

All is far from well in what claims to be the world's ‘most liveable’ city…

As former British secret service agent Bromo Perkins tries to establish an anonymous life as a travel agent in Melbourne, Australia, he finds himself being blackmailed into resolving murderous turf wars between property developers.

The trouble starts for Bromo – who blends hard-man machismo with a soft touch with the ladies – when he is presented with a photo of himself in flagrante delecto with Aurelia Nuyen, whose husband Gerry is one of said developers.

But besides art gallery owner Aurelia, there is Fiona, the beautiful minder of Gerry’s arch-rival Peter Rasheed, a punky Goth who works at the town hall, a high-ranking copper called Delia and a nightclub bouncer named Sonia.

The question is, can Bromo keep all these ladies sweet as he uncovers an unholy mess of bribery, corruption and death as he tracks through the city’s less-than-savoury underbelly – a journey that reveals much about its seamy past and present.

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Done-Deal-T...9P082BASV9QQ53


US
https://www.amazon.com/Done-Deal-Ton...9P082BASV9QQ53

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Done-Deal-...9P082BASV9QQ53

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Done-Deal-Tony...9P082BASV9QQ53

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - This Is The House by Shelley Smith

Spoiler:

Julia Jacques has been paralysed for five years…

Confined to her bed in the house built by her husband, she is a threat to no one.

So it comes as a shock to everyone when she is found dead.

Not daring to believe that her death was malicious, Julia is buried and the family attempt to move on. Until tragedy strikes again when Julia’s son Raoul is viciously murdered.

An author of crime fiction, Quentin Seal steps up to take on the challenge of finding the murderer.

But reality is far more complex than fiction, Quentin soon finds, as the killer’s motives appear more and more sinister…

Was Julia murdered?

Who is responsible for Raoul’s death? And how do these two connect?

It soon becomes clear that no one is telling the truth as Quentin finds himself caught up in a twisted web of lies, witchcraft and secrecy, leading to disastrous consequences.

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MTOBO...9P082BASV9QQ53

US
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTOBO4Z...9P082BASV9QQ53

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B01MTOB...9P082BASV9QQ53

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01MTOBO4Z/...9P082BASV9QQ53

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - Repeats - see below

Blindfold: A Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth (repeat from July -if you missed it)

Spoiler:

She was looking at the place where the mirror had hung. It didn’t reflect anything because the glass was gone. Instead there was a blackness, a dark hole full of shadows. There was a shuffling and a sighing, and a deep and dreadful groan. Then something moved.

Flossie Palmer worked in the kitchen at 16 Varley Street. It was her job to see that the trays were carried up to Miss Rowland on time. But the job lasted only a few hours and Flossie found herself running, her heart pounding in her throat, down the foggy street, not daring to stop or to listen for the footsteps that might be following her. She had been exploring the drawing room of the great house and had suddenly seen the big six-foot mirror move – and reveal a human face. In the thickness of the fog Flossie met Miles Clayton and told him her story. Miles has a story of his own which explains his presence in London – searching for a 19-year-old girl who, if found, would become heir to a vast sum. How these two mysteries coincide, and how they are resolved, form one of the author’s most beguiling adventures.

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blindfold-G...TCN8X6QKRGJWMC


US
Not available

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Blindfold-...TCN8X6QKRGJWMC

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Blindfold-Gold...TCN8X6QKRGJWMC




The Case of Sir Adam Braid: A Golden Age Mystery by Molly Thynne repeat from September

Spoiler:

“The blood’s coming from a cut at the back of his neck,” she said slowly. “He couldn’t have done that in falling. Some one must have—”

Sir Adam Braid, the distinguished artist, was a cantankerous old man. Not well-liked by most of his family and associates, he was about to add one more enemy to the list by changing his will … but not before death paid a visit to his London flat, and Sir Adam was found stabbed through the neck.

Chief-Inspector Fenn takes charge of the case and soon notices the butler seems more frightened than shocked – but what if anything, did the butler do? After all, there is a plethora of suspects, including mercenary relatives and some curious occupants of the neighbouring flats. Fenn must put the clues together, and bring a murderer to justice in this classic golden age mystery.

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Case-Sir-Ad...s=molly+thynne

US
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Sir-Adam...s=molly+thynne

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Case-Sir-A...s=molly+thynne

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Case-Sir-Adam-...s=molly+thynne

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - Out of Reach by Elizabeth McGregor

Spoiler:

The truth is always just out of reach…

Kate McCaulay thinks she has rebuilt her life. She has a job as a local newspaper reporter, a flat above an antiques shop in a village by the sea, and a close group of friends.

But one day her carefully erected existence collapses when tragedy explodes back into her life.

Ten years ago Kate’s eight-week-old baby, Jamie, was stolen.

The loss destroyed her marriage and still haunts her dreams with guilt and longing.

And now letters have started arriving on her doormat, anonymous letters that read, ‘I know where he is…’

Tragedy strikes again when her colleague and close friend, Maggie, is found, dead.

Kate is torn between running once again or finding out who sent the letters so she can finally have some answers.

She enlists the help of Johnathon Reeve, a psychiatrist, to help her work through her issues.

He seems to be exactly what she needs – someone who listens, understands, and is willing to help.

Kate soon comes to the realisation that she must put her fear to one side and find the truth behind her son’s disappearance.

Even if the child will always remain just Out of Reach...

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01NA6VA...ndeavour+press

US
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NA6VA70...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B01NA6V...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01NA6VA70/...ndeavour+press

[sufue]

No Strings Attached is the eighth in the Lexi Carmichael series by Julie Moffett. I've read a couple in the series, and they are romantic suspense-ish, but I'd probably come down on the side of calling them mysteries, so am posting here. Anyway, Strings has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0166B4OK8

Spoiler:

Oops, I did it again…

Leave it to me, Lexi Carmichael, to become a target for an elite organization of cyber criminals simply by being in the wrong place at the right time. As if I weren't already freaking out about planning my best friend's bachelorette party, I now have to keep my eyes peeled for people trying to kill me.

After accidentally intercepting a dangerous hack into the NSA and discovering the involvement of a foreign country in said hack, things begin to get seriously complicated. Diplomats, danger and spies, oh, my!

With Slash and my loyal friends by my side, I'm in a race against time to stop a team of sophisticated hackers on a deadly mission. My team of geeks is brilliant…but derailing an international plot for revenge will take everything we've got.

Don't miss Lexi's first adventure in No One Lives Twice!

[sufue]

Now dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US.

Originally Posted by sufue

And now Mystery Mile, the second Albert Campion title, has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US. I hope this starts a trend again...

link: https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Alber.../dp/B00J2X714Y

[sufue]

The Unquiet Dead is the first in the Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak series by Ausma Zehanat Khan. It was nominated for/won some awards when first published. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LDRARWK

Spoiler:

Despite their many differences, Detective Rachel Getty trusts her boss, Esa Khattak, implicitly. But she's still uneasy at Khattak's tight-lipped secrecy when he asks her to look into Christopher Drayton's death. Drayton's apparently accidental fall from a cliff doesn't seem to warrant a police investigation, particularly not from Rachel and Khattak's team, which handles minority-sensitive cases. But when she learns that Drayton may have been living under an assumed name, Rachel begins to understand why Khattak is tip-toeing around this case. It soon comes to light that Drayton may have been a war criminal with ties to the Srebrenica massacre of 1995.

If that's true, any number of people might have had reason to help Drayton to his death, and a murder investigation could have far-reaching ripples throughout the community. But as Rachel and Khattak dig deeper into the life and death of Christopher Drayton, every question seems to lead only to more questions, with no easy answers. Had the specters of Srebrenica returned to haunt Drayton at the end, or had he been keeping secrets of an entirely different nature? Or, after all, did a man just fall to his death from the Bluffs?

In her spellbinding debut, Ausma Zehanat Khan has written a complex and provocative story of loss, redemption, and the cost of justice that will linger with readers long after turning the final page.

[sufue]

Them Bones is the first in the Sarah Booth Delaney series by Carolyn Haines. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US, so you can see how it all started. I've read and really enjoyed the first few titles in this series in DTB; then I just sort of drifted away from it with no good reason other than them being a little expensive/agency, but am looking forward to rereading this one.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001PSEQ56

Spoiler:

If only I hadn't kidnapped the dog...but the ransom paid the mortgage....Now I seem to be a private eye....I shouldn't have listened to that ghost....

Meet Sarah Booth Delaney...an unconventional Southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi...if it doesn't make her the deadest.

No self-respecting lady would allow herself to end up in Sarah Booth's situation. Unwed, unemployed, and over thirty, she's flat broke and about to lose the family plantation. Not to mention being haunted by the ghost of her great-great-grandmother's nanny, who never misses an opportunity to remind her of her sorry state--or to suggest a plan of action, like ransoming her friend's prize pooch to raise some cash.

But soon Sarah Booth's walk on the criminal side leads her deeper into unladylike territory, and she's hired to solve a murder. Did gorgeous, landed Hamilton Garrett V really kill his mother twenty years ago? And if so, what is Sarah Booth doing falling for this possible murderer? When she asks one too many questions and a new corpse turns up, she is suddenly a suspect herself...and Sarah Booth finds that digging up the bones of the past could leave her rolling over in her grave.

[sufue]

Eye of the Red Tsar is the first in the Inspector Pekkala series by Sam Eastland (pen name for Paul Watkins). It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0036S4BA8

Spoiler:

Shortly after midnight on July 17, 1918, the imprisoned family of Tsar Nicholas Romanov was awakened and led down to the basement of the Ipatiev house. There they were summarily executed. Their bodies were hidden away, the location a secret of the Soviet state. A decade later, Pekkala, once the most trusted secret agent of the Romanovs, is now Prisoner 4745-P, banished to a forest on the outskirts of humanity. But the state needs Pekkala one last time. His mission: catch the assassins who slaughtered the Romanovs, locate the royal child rumored to be alive, and give Stalin the international coup he craves. Find the bodies, Pekkala is told, and you will find your freedom.

In a land of uneasy alliances and lethal treachery, pursuing clues that have eluded everyone, Pekkala is thrust into the past where he once reigned. There he will meet the man who betrayed him and the woman he loved and lost in the fires of rebellion—and uncover a secret so shocking that it will shake to its core the land he loves.

[sufue]

Wreck the Halls is the fifth (and holiday-themed, as you might guess from the title) in the Home Repair is Homicide series by Sarah Graves. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001NJUPCK

Spoiler:

When ex—Wall Streeter Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree bought a charming 1823 fixer-upper in tiny Eastport, Maine, she figured she’d also bought herself a tranquil, stress-free life. But Jake soon learned that appearances can be deceiving, and that even small towns have their share of dark secrets — including murder.

Wreck The Halls

People hardly ever lock their doors in Eastport. So when Jake and her best pal, Ellie, arrive at Faye Anne Carmody’s kitchen door, they knock and walk right in. But though Christmas is just two weeks away, what they find is far from festive: a dazed Faye Anne covered with blood, and her no-good husband — the town butcher, Merle — nowhere in sight. Nowhere, that is, until Jake discovers his body — tidily wrapped in his own butcher paper....

It doesn’t take long for news of the murder to race through the small town, and just about everyone has a theory about the grisly crime that has robbed Eastport of its least-liked citizen. But while police chief Bob Arnold considers it an open-and-shut case, Jake and Ellie aren’t convinced of Faye Anne’s guilt.

Jake has enough going on in her life without trying to investigate a murder. After all, she’s just married her longtime love, Wade, and the pair plan to spend the winter rehabilitating the paint-encrusted windows in Jake’s old house.

But Jake has to admit that there are a lot of details that don’t add up: for example, Faye Anne’s complaint that she was being stalked, and blood-splattered evidence at the crime scene that just doesn’t make sense. Then there is the diary that Faye Anne’s secret, sometime boyfriend claims is hidden somewhere in her house. Could Faye Anne’s own journal be the key to unlocking an even more fiendish murder plot, or is her double-crossing lover trying to frame her?

When yet another Eastport citizen turns up dead, Jake realizes the murderer’s trail began long before the night Merle Carmody died. But what keeps eluding her and Ellie is the motive behind the mystery. The truth is so close, they can almost taste it — but can they stop the shrewd killer before he chisels another victim’s name onto a tombstone?

[sufue]

Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor is the first in the Jane Austen (as the protagonist) series by Stephanie Barron. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001QAP38W

Spoiler:

For everyone who loves Jane Austen...a marvelously entertaining new series that turns the incomparable author into an extraordinary sleuth!

On a visit to the estate of her friend, the young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave, Jane bears witness to a tragedy. Isobel's husband—a gentleman of mature years—is felled by a mysterious and agonizing ailment. The Earl's death seems a cruel blow of fate for the newly married Isobel. Yet the bereaved widow soon finds that it's only the beginning of her misfortune...as she receives a sinister missive accusing her and the Earl's nephew of adultery—and murder. Desperately afraid that the letter will expose her to the worst sort of scandal, Isobel begs Jane for help. And Jane finds herself embroiled in a perilous investigation that will soon have her following a trail of clues that leads all the way to Newgate Prison and the House of Lords—a trail that may well place Jane's own person in the gravest jeopardy.

[GeoffR]

The Defenceless by Kati Hiekkapelto is $0.99 at Kobo Australia and New Zealand. It doesn't seem to be reduced at other retailers yet, maybe soon.

[GA Russell]

Raylan - Elmore Leonard - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Raylan-Novel-...dp/B005GFQ0IK/