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Old 02-21-2017, 10:48 AM   #211
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All 3 genres, I'd say, but also faction... I keep it in with my general fiction books as opposed to more definate genres. It's a bit of an oddity.
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Free Today on Amazon UK - Talking to the Dead: Fiona Griffiths Crime Thriller Series Book 1 by Harry Bingham Edit no longer free - now 99p as are books 2 to 5

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

A young girl is found dead. A prostitute is murdered. And the strangest, youngest detective in the South Wales Major Crimes Unit is about to face the fiercest test of her short career.

A woman and her six-year-old daughter are killed with chilling brutality in a dingy flat. The only clue: the platinum bank card of a long-dead tycoon, found amidst the squalor.

DC Griffiths has already proved herself dedicated to the job, but there's another side to her she is less keen to reveal. Something to do with a mysterious two-year gap in her CV, her strange inability to cry - and a disconcerting familiarity with corpses.

Fiona is desperate to put the past behind her but as more gruesome killings follow, the case leads her back into those dark places in her own mind where another dead girl is waiting to be found...



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Old 02-22-2017, 04:47 PM   #214
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Book 1 is still free at Kindle US, and 2-5 are $0.99 also.

link for all five: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...price-asc-rank


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Free Today on Amazon UK - Talking to the Dead: Fiona Griffiths Crime Thriller Series Book 1 by Harry Bingham Edit no longer free - now 99p as are books 2 to 5

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

A young girl is found dead. A prostitute is murdered. And the strangest, youngest detective in the South Wales Major Crimes Unit is about to face the fiercest test of her short career.

A woman and her six-year-old daughter are killed with chilling brutality in a dingy flat. The only clue: the platinum bank card of a long-dead tycoon, found amidst the squalor.

DC Griffiths has already proved herself dedicated to the job, but there's another side to her she is less keen to reveal. Something to do with a mysterious two-year gap in her CV, her strange inability to cry - and a disconcerting familiarity with corpses.

Fiona is desperate to put the past behind her but as more gruesome killings follow, the case leads her back into those dark places in her own mind where another dead girl is waiting to be found...



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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Talking-Dea...VA9DJG8S566P6M

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Old 02-22-2017, 04:57 PM   #215
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Malice in Maggody is the first in the Arly Hanks/Maggody series by Joan Hess. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (couponable/VIPable).

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Her marriage over and career gone bust, Arly Hanks flees Manhattan for her hometown: Maggody, Arkansas. In a town this size, nothing much ever happens, so Arly figures she’s safe as the town’s first female chief of police—until the husband of one of the local barmaids escapes from state prison and heads for town. And that’s not all. An EPA official with ties to polluting the local fishing hole has suddenly vanished off the face of the earth.

As if two manhunts aren’t enough to contend with, a body has been discovered at the pay-by-the-hour Flamingo Motel, shot clean through the neck with an arrow. For some reason, Maggody’s residents—all 755 of them—have gone tight-lipped, stonewalling Arly’s investigations, and Arly hasn’t a soul to trust but her half-wit deputy. Now, as Maggody’s finest, she’ll have to show a little muscle and a lot of cunning to curtail the inhospitable mountain malice that’s overtaken her town. And she’ll have to watch her own back every step of the way.

From Agatha Award–winning author Joan Hess, Malice in Maggody is the novel that introduced police chief Arly Hanks—the indomitable sleuth of the popular and long-running Maggody series.

Malice in Maggody is the 1st book in the Arly Hanks Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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Old 02-22-2017, 05:07 PM   #216
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Shamus in a Skirt is the 4th in the Maggie Sullivan series by M. Ruth Myers. It has dropped again to $0.99 at Kindle US. Info and link in this previous post from badgoodDeb, who had liked the first three in the series: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3200842
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Bargain @ 99 cents for today only in Canada & the US (maybe also other countries) as one of the Kindle Daily Deals from Amazon's exclusive AmazonCrossing imprint for translations:

A Darker Sky by Swedish author Mari Jungstedt (SYKM, Wikipedia) & Ruben Eliassen, 1st in their Canary Island series co-starring a visiting Swedish journalist and a local Chief Inspector.

This is the cheapest I've ever seen it, and I keep track of the prices on this imprint. Incidentally, there are a number of other AmazonCrossing titles for just 99 cents as part of what looks the monthly deals markdowns, including a number of mystery/thrillers.

Murder is killing the mood at a yoga tourist destination.

As dawn breaks on the Canary Islands, a fisherman discovers a woman lying dead on the rocks nearby, her body arranged like a piece of art. To solve the case, Chief Inspector Diego Quintana gets unexpected help from Swedish journalist Sara Moberg, who runs the Scandinavian newspaper on the island, as well as from handsome former investigator Kristian Wede. But not even that can stop the killer from striking again.

As the death toll rises, the mood darkens, and Sara and Kristian race to find the killer before another tourist falls prey. But who is the culprit—an island local with a grudge against the tourists, a visitor on the run from trouble in her home country, the womanizing local yoga instructor, or the person they least suspect?
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Old 02-22-2017, 05:33 PM   #218
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(Cross-posted from the romance thread - although I personally consider them to be more Regency romance than crime, others may not.)

Annabel Laine (better known as Reay Tannahill) The Melancholy Virgin (Earl of Moriston Bk 2) is 99p on Amazon.co.uk as an Endeavour Press deal. Bk 1 was a recent Countdown deal.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Melancholy-...=annabel+laine

The second book chronicling the mysteries of the dashing Earl of Moriston.

Sometimes the truth is closer to home than we dare to imagine…

‘You’re not going to be best pleased. It’s a case of murder.’

With these words from a Bow Street Runner, that nonpareil of Regency London, Charles Edward Graham Dornay, fifth Earl of Moriston, finds himself entangled with the violent and mysterious death of a lady of easy virtue.

The prime suspect?

His own secretary, saturnine Francis Mervyn.


I love these; it's a pity no more were ever written.
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Old 02-23-2017, 09:39 PM   #220
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Convalescence is a short story in the Richard Nottingham series by Chris Nickson. It is free right now at Kindle US.

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Amazon UK Daily Deal: Sea Lord by Bernard Cornwall, £0.99

A 1989 contemporary thriller. Stand-alone. Sounds fun.

Johnny Rossendale has spent the last four years on the seas, away from the titled family he despises. But now he must turn his sailing cutter, the Sunflower, around and sail to Devon, where his mother lies dying.

When Johnny makes landfall, though, he finds that his return is eagerly anticipated by some very sinister foes. After an attempt on his life, he realises that someone thinks a missing painting that belongs to the family is in his hands - and, worse, they are prepared to go to any lengths to get hold of it.

But as Earl of Stowey, Johnny has eight centuries of robber-baron blood pumping through his veins. He won't let the family fortune fall into the hands of others without a fight . . .
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I'm never quite sure exactly which books of JA Konrath's count as "conventionally" published and which don't, but this one is listed in SYKM, so I'm taking that as a sign that it was, at some point, conventionally published.

Per SYKM, Shot of Tequila is the 7th in Konrath's Lt. Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels series, although in the blurb for the paperback version, the author mentions:

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Technically, it is the first book in the series, because it takes place before Jack becomes a Lieutenant. But it really isn't Jack's book. She's a supporting character, not the main one. The main character is a mobster named Tequila.
In any case, Shot is free right now at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Shot-Tequila-...dp/B00267T4H0/

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A GUTSY ROBBERY
Several million bucks, stolen from the mob...

A PERFECT FRAME
All caught on video, with no chance of redemption...

A RED HOT RECIPE FOR RAMPAGING REVENGE
Now one man must face the entire Chicago Outfit, a group of hardened Mafia enforcers, a psychotic bookie, the most dangerous hitman on earth, and Detective Jacqueline Daniels...

His name is Tequila. And he likes those odds.

SHOT OF TEQUILA by JA Konrath
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Just got a note from Amazon US that one of the books on my wishlist was on sale. Upon investigating further, all eight of the Nikki Heat books are US$1.99 - and a ninth that I didn't know was coming (Heat Storm) is slated for May, described as "Nikki Heat teams up with Derrick Storm."

For those saying "I know that name from somewhere," this is the series created as a tie-in to the Castle TV show. The show's done, but the fiction lives on...
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