FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

The second in this series, Not a Girl Detective, has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Detectiv...dp/B001RS8KUQ/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/not-a-girl-detective

Spoiler:

"I spent my entire youth idolizing Nancy Drew. I'm pushing forty now, but some fantasies die hard."

Besides her beloved collection of vintage designer clothing, there is nothing Cece Caruso cherishes more than her childhood memories of Nancy Drew. Her near obsession with the fictional teenage sleuth led her to become a professional biographer of classic mystery writers. And now that she's working on a book about Nancy's pseudonymous creator, "Carolyn Keene, " Cece's in heaven.

At the L. A. home of another rabid Drew-ophile, Cece finds a treasure trove of useful memorabilia, including one unique and somewhat shocking collectible. Later she finds a dead body -- and a puzzle that would sorely test the skills of her spunky girlhood heroine. Now she'll have to channel her former idol and unmask a murderer, and the killer may be coming for Cece next.

Originally Posted by sufue

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I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason is the first in the Cece Caruso series by Susan Kandel (up there in the great title category IMO, along with The Cannibal Who Overate, and I Still Miss My Man but My Aim Is Getting Better )
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Dreamed-Marri...dp/B001RS8KP6/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/i-d...ed-perry-mason

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[pdurrant]

Peter Grant's next adventure, The Furthest Station, is now available for pre-order at Amazon UK.


I'm posting this to the bargains thread, as when you pre-order, if amazon do any offers on this title between now and the release date (21st September 2017), you pay the lowest price they offered between when you ordered and when it's released.

So if you like Ben Aaronovitch's tales of a mystical London policeman, get your order in now for the best price on shipping day.

[sufue]

All four of the titles in the Lady Ashby de la Zouche/Alpiew series by Fidelis Morgan are 50% off at Smashwords this week as part of the SW read-an-ebook-week sale, using coupon RAE50. (A couple of other Morgan titles are also 50% off...)

Titles are:

1. Unnatural Fire
2. Rival Queens
3. The Ambitious Stepmother
4. Fortune's Slave

Link for all (including the strays): https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/FidelisMorgan

P.S. More info on the overall sale in this thread.

[sufue]

The last two titles in Nathan Walpow's Joe Portugal series are free with coupon RAE75 in the Smashwords read-an-ebook-week sale mentioned in my previous post. A collection of short stories/novella and a stand-alone short story are also free right now.

Joe Portugal titles:

• One Last Hit, #3
• The Manipulated, #4

link for all: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/walpow

[sufue]

The Dressing Table Murder is a free short story in the Bethancourt & Gibbons series by Cassandra Chan. It is free in a variety of formats at Smashwords.

link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/649850

Spoiler:

A Bethancourt & Gibbons mystery short story.

Bethancourt & Gibbons mysteries are a series of traditional British cozies in a modern setting. Phillip Bethancourt is a wealthy man-about town and amateur sleuth. His best friend is Detective Sergeant Jack Gibbons, a rising star at Scotland Yard. Together they can suss out even the most complex cases.

The Dressing Table Murder is the first short story in the series, originally published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. There are also four novels published by St. Martin’s Minotaur.

“Literate and charming mysteries.” —Booklist
“An enjoyable outing into Dorothy Sayers territory.” —Publishers Weekly
“The author tells a tale that is part crime story, part family drama, part buddy flick, and part love story---a combination that makes for enjoyable reading.”
—School Library Journal

[GA Russell]

Big Numbers (Austin Carr #1) - free
https://www.amazon.com/Numbers-Austi...dp/B00D3DJMJQ/

*****

Paul Carter is a Dead Man - free
https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Carter-D...dp/B00HVVL2J4/

[GA Russell]

Bank Shot (Dortmunder #2) - Donald E. Westlake - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005UK7TQ8

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK today - The Final Truth by Nick Gordon

Spoiler:

One man’s lie is another man’s truth…

And this is never more so than in the murky world of African politics, the veritable heart of darkness.

It’s a world that Max Latimer, a one-time Fleet Street reporter now working for the International Criminal Court in The Hague trying to bring genocidal warlords to justice, becomes almost fatally enmeshed in.

His investigative skills are suddenly of interest to a distraught Martha Kibassa, a senior economist at the World Health Organisation whose husband Henry, a prominent African politician, has been brutally murdered in his home, executed, assassinated – with a signature bullet in the ear.

Max’s name was on an envelope in Kabissa’s briefcase which contained a list – the names of people who had disappeared in Zambania, a country now in the grip of President Alphonse Bareto.

The land is of huge interest to the world’s major powers thanks to its treasure-trove of natural resources – and Bareto, an orphaned former refugee, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in restoring order in the region.

He is about to receive his ward in Oslo.

At the same time, the recent failure to bring about the successful prosecution of a man accused of war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia has left Max’s career in shreds.

But if he can bring Bareto’s hit-squad chief, General Hippolyte Moses, to The Hague as a witness to the ‘executions’ in Zambania, he has the chance to repair the damage.

Max seeks to bring Bareto to justice, but Martha seeks revenge.

What is the real purpose of Martha’s decision to take leave and go on a hunting trip to Norway?

How is Max tangled up in the murder of a prostitute by British Special Forces?

What is so revealing about the way General Moses dispatches a bull elephant which threatens to disrupt the progress of a train during his transit to The Hague?

And what is on a tiny pink memory stick that Bareto so hugely prizes?

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

US
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Truth-N...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Final-Trut...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Final-Truth-Ni...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK today - Diamond Cut Diamond (A Lord Ambrose Mystery Book 4) by Jane Jakeman

Spoiler:

It is 1835, and Lord Ambrose Malfine is outside the walls of the ruined castle of Pribyslav in Bohemia. As he watches his horse graze, he contemplates how he got there…

The story begins at Lord Ambrose’s mansion, where he and Elisabeth are entertaining friends for dinner.

They admire a beautiful necklace worn by Lilian, the wife of Ambrose’s friend Dr Lawrence, which he has bought for her to celebrate the birth of their baby.

Later, the gentlemen learn that Lawrence has taken credit of £1,000 for the necklace, having intended only to spend twenty pounds.

After the guests have departed, Ambrose tells Elisabeth about Lawrence’s rash purchase.

She is shocked, her background and experience having told her quite clearly that the stones of the necklace are false – very good fakes…

Ambrose takes it upon himself to find the jeweller who sold his friend the false stones and get the credit rescinded.

Upon finding Florizel in Bond Street, Ambrose is introduced to a countess who sold the original necklace to the jeweller, and who seems herself to have been defrauded.

Ambrose is successful not only in having the debt of his friend expunged, but also recovers for him the sum of £1,000 and the same for the countess.

As a reward for this the lady gives him a small key and a clue to the whereabouts of the lock it will open.

This should perhaps have been the end of the matter, but Ambrose’s natural curiosity and gentlemanly behaviour result in him following the countess home, at a distance, and finding out from a local urchin that she is from Bohemia.

And so, Ambrose travels to his former college at Oxford to trace the family from the coat of arms he remembers from the countess’s dress.

Having done so successfully, he then discovers he has been followed by a man whose clothing bears the same crest.

He returns to the countess’s house in London to find she has disappeared, and that Billy has been tied up and imprisoned.

And thereby begins Lord Ambrose’s adventure in Bohemia…

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

US
https://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Lord-...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Diamond-Lo...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Diamond-Lord-A...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK today - Fear by Instalments by John Burke

Spoiler:

Enchanting. Intoxicating. Charming…but cold.

Ingrid Lee is enticing, yet distant and Mike Merriman is powerless to resist her.

Touring around the country with Ingrid and her mystical voice is it really any surprise that the successful bandleader falls for his latest muse?

Mike’s wife certainly doesn’t seem surprised.

A new, younger model. How original.

But that doesn’t stop it from hurting…

When Liza disappears, Mike is slightly relieved with the prospect of not having to deal with the ice cold stares of blame and hurt, maybe a divorce can be negotiated, quickly and painlessly?

But things soon turn sinister as Ingrid becomes the victim of vicious threats.

Could it possibly be Liza, consumed by desire for vengeance?

Or is the aloof Ingrid harbouring something dark beneath her icy composure?

At home or on stage, it soon becomes clear that Ingrid is not safe from a crazy persecution that threatens to finish in murder as Mike strives to put an end to the fear that builds up so remorselessly.

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

US
https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Instalme...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Fear-Insta...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Fear-Instalmen...ndeavour+press

[sufue]

The first two titles in the Jim Stringer/Railway Detective series by Andrew Martin have dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

The Necropolis Railway, #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Necropolis-Ra...dp/B002RI9YDW/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...storical-novel

The Blackpool Flyer, #2
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Blackpool-Hig...dp/B002RI90F4/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...pool-highflyer

[sufue]

The first three titles in Catherine Lloyd's Kurland St. Mary series have dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Death Comes to the Village, #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Comes-V...dp/B00DG7M2KU/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...-the-village-1

Death Comes to London, #2
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Comes-L...dp/B00KFP7YIG/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...es-to-london-1

Death Comes To Kurland Hall, #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Comes-K...dp/B00U7LG7FE/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...o-kurland-hall

[sufue]

The first three titles in Anne Cleeland's Kathleen Doyle/Michael Sinclair series have dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US

Murder in Thrall, #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Thrall...dp/B00KBZNPE2/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/murder-in-thrall-2

Murder in Retribution, #2
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Retrib...dp/B00ONTS5WO/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mur...-retribution-1

Murder in Hindsight, #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Hindsi...dp/B00OEW5RJY/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/murder-in-hindsight

[sufue]

Both titles in the Kitty Peck series by Kate Griffin are combined in an omnibus that is $1.99 at Kobo US (coupon/VIPable) and $1.49 at Kindle US.

Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders and Kitty Peck and the Child of Ill-Fortune omnibus:

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Kitty-Peck-My...dp/B01M8G7QL2/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...peck-mysteries

[sufue]

The three titles in Pamela Christie's Arabella Beaumont series have all dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Death of a Courtesan, #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Pamela-Christie/e/B00JALBN1K/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...he-courtesan-1

Death Among the Ruins, #2
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Among-A...dp/B00F8J6PWK/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...ng-the-ruins-2

Death and the Cyprian Society, #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Cyprian-Socie...dp/B00LEU4R18/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...rian-society-1