FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - You Belong to Me by Elizabeth McGregor

Spoiler:

An unhealthy obsession…with deadly consequences…

When Faith Collins discovers that she is pregnant shortly after her divorce, the news comes as a surprise. Desperate to start a new life and escape her heartbreak, Faith, an artist by profession, buys a rundown house on an island off the coast of Dorset.

And when Faith is approached by Cecily Joscelyne, a famous interior designer, to provide a set of paintings for a client, it seems that her life is finally getting back on track.

But Cecily, or Joz as she is known, is secretly battling her own demons: mentally abused by her stepfather, Randolf, and hopelessly besotted by her brother, Thomas, she is close to a complete breakdown.

Joz believes that if she can just find a retreat on the island that she and Thomas used to imagine as children, everything will be perfect.

But there is one thing standing in the way of her plan: Faith Collins.

For Faith’s house is the sanctuary Joz longs for – and one that she will do anything to get.

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[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - The Angel by Gerald Verner

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Angela Kesson leads a luxury lifestyle in London, but has a treacherous source of income…

Angela makes her money by ensnaring men of undesirable reputation with her striking good looks and robbing them of their valuables while they sleep.

She is the unsuspecting thief, dubbed “The Angel” for her beauty, until now.

Detective-Inspector Jimmy Holland has had his eye on “The Angel” for a long time and when one of her burglaries goes wrong and the unsavoury man she was last seen with is found brutally murdered in his home, Holland believes he has caught the spider in her own web.

Except, Angela Kesson is innocent—of this crime at least.

And the real killer is out there, looking for a critical item Angela found in the man’s home the night of the murder.

In investigating the murder, Holland finds that things are not what they seem.

Is “The Angel” tangling him up in new lies, or is there somebody else spinning the web?

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[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free on Amazon UK - You Belong to Me by Elizabeth McGregor

Thanks, Mort. I think Endeavour Press must have bought a job lot of "person walking along a foggy road at night" cover designs. They certainly use them on an awful lot of their books .

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Death by Diamonds (A Bromo Perkins Mystery Book 3) by Tony Berry

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Former British secret agent Bromo Perkins’ bid for a quiet life as a one-man travel agency in Melbourne is about to explode…

Bromo survives mainly on coffee and malt whisky and blends street-wise hardness with a soft touch with the ladies.

But before he can say ‘Laphroaig’ events are swirling around him and he doesn’t know why – starting with a murdered girl, Tamsyn, who is found to have swallowed diamonds.

Why had she been taken under the wing of one of Bromo’s lady loves who then directs him to a seedy diamond merchant?

Why does the jeweller warn him off and who would mug Bromo shortly after?

And why are there youths stalking him, delivering cryptic messages attached to dodgy diamonds and taking their orders from a gun-toting undercover agent using past liaisons to coerce him into action?

It is a whirlpool with no visible source.

And Bromo’s past seems set to haunt him. When all he wants is to be left alone why are his former masters so closely watching him?

They may have unjustly banished him to the far side of the globe for one small stuff-up, but they have never forgotten him – or set him free.

The tentacles of intrigue stretch far beyond his adopted city in Australia – back to London and across the Indian Ocean to the ancient rock fortress of Sigiriya in civil war-torn Sri Lanka.

He struggles to decipher events – from his early contacts with the Sri Lankans, the explosive raid on their café and the warning from the jeweller, a bruising hit-run attack and an encounter with the enigmatic Mr Blood.

Bromo also experiences an emotional reunion with his daughter Jess, who is committed to the worldwide war on a deadly diamond trade…

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[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - He Died of Murder by Shelley Smith

Spoiler:

The least likely victim…

When Master Titmarsh, head of the old religious community known as “The Seekers” who devote themselves to farming and the simple life, is found murdered in one of the community’s fields, it seems that nobody could have been guilty of the crime.

According to his order, Master Titmarsh had no enemies, and no one would have had any motive to kill him.

It is only after Detective-Inspector Chaos has moved in to live with the Brotherhood itself that he begins to glimpse the dangerous complexities and grim motives that seethe beneath the apparently placid surface of their lives.

Every member of the order has their own story to tell and, as more and more secrets emerge, it becomes ever more difficult for D.I Chaos to weave these stories together into the truth…

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[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Spin and Die (Jordan Lacey Mysteries Book 3) by Stella Whitelaw

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Zany and eccentric PI Jordan Lacey takes on new cases with verve and ingenuity. But DI James says she takes on far more than she can cope with…

It’s Christmas time and Jordan is hired to follow Sonia Spiller, a woman suspected of compensation fraud against a department store.

With luxury goods vanishing from the same store, she’s also asked to take on a second case, posing as a temporary sales assistant.

Meanwhile, two masked men hold up a restaurant and Jordan’s good friend Mavis takes a brutal beating.

When a man spins to his death on Hell’s Revenge, a high-tech funfair ride, Jordan gets the feeling that these cases are horribly linked.

Soon she finds herself jumping from case to case, one disguise after another, with little time to spare.

Soon, a woman accuses her of being a stalker.

A JCB destroys the local bowling pavilion, revealing some grisly remains.

And Jordan gets trapped in a watermill.

Jordan Lacey thought she had it under control, but maybe this time DI James was right...

And why isn’t he picking up his phone?

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[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - The Power Bug by Geoffrey Osborne

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A British scientist formulates a new oil refining technique, based on the use of bugs...

It could change everything.

Only Russia can check the Red Chinese menace, but is Russia the right place to go with this formula?

The scientist must escape from Rangoon to Russia. Soviet agents arrange this, but China, Britain and America are equally determined to get the formula. Who will end up with the formula?

British Secret Serviceman James Dingle has to pit his wits against the Russians, the Chinese and Burma’s formidable counterespionage chief.

Will he succeed, and most of all, will he survive?

A dangerous chase ensues that leads Dingle through Burma and reaches its exciting climax high in the Himalayas.

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[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Short Storm by David Hegarty

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In all of Ireland, it seems there is no more beautiful or peaceful place than the tranquil fishing village of Rinnemor…

The rest of the country might be in political upheaval, with the IRA a constant disruption to life, but Rinnemor has always remained in the eye of Ireland’s terrorist tornado.

With the arrival of a short, two-day storm, however, all that is about to change…

Sean Doyle and his wife Eileen are pillars of the Rinnemor community, and with the purchase of a new trawler they are set to blaze a trail into the future of the fishing industry. But even the most successful pillars have secrets to hide.

For the Doyles, that secret is Steven Cullen, Eileen’s brother and the black sheep of the family, whose involvement with the IRA has landed him in more hot water than he’d care to admit.

Recently escaped from prison, Cullen is on the run from the British and Irish governments as well as the IRA, and his only hope for escape lies with Sean’s trawler and a rendezvous with disreputable and malicious Frenchman Marcel Gustav.

But Cullen’s flight to freedom is cut abruptly short when he is betrayed — and instead of the liberty of the French coast, he finds himself being driven back towards the source of all his problems.

And those problems are about to rain a world of troubles down on the heads of Sean and Eileen Doyle…

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[sufue]

Two-Faced Death is the second in the Inspector Alvarez series by Roderic Jeffries. It is a US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about 4 more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Two-Faced-Dea...dp/B06XS2NFZ4/

Spoiler:

Inspector Enrique Alvarez’s retirement is approaching…

Looking forward to spending his days taking siestas uninterrupted by the sound of the telephone ringing, and drinking brandy in the sun, a complicated murder was certainly not part of these retirement plans…

Foreigners have descended on the Island of Mallorca, including many English seeking warmer climes.

One thing the islander Alvarez shares with the town of Llueso’s new residents; a taste for cognac.

Indeed, the Bank of England manager Breedan, an unwelcome visitor, is the odd one out in these parts, as a man who does not drink!

Unfortunately, it is another Englishman, by the name of John Calvin, who is the victim in this case.

It seems Calvin’s dodgy financial dealings have eventually caught up with him, after a suicide note is found.

Was death the only way out left to him?

There are those who find it hard to believe and the plot thickens further when Calvin’s body cannot be found…

Is something more suspicious than suicide at play here?

With Chief Inspector Salas on his back, Alvarez is under unwelcome pressure to produce results…

Two-Faced Death is a mysterious crime thriller that will keep you hooked until the very end.

[sufue]

Catherine Aird's Inspector Sloan (and Constable Crosby!) series is one of my top five favorite series. A Late Phoenix is the 4th title in the series, and it has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US. Aird's backlist are Open Road titles that only rarely go on sale...

link: https://www.amazon.com/Late-Phoenix-...dp/B00USNEQ5O/

Spoiler:

Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan is called on to solve the coldest of cases in this thriller from CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird

Berebury, England, did not have an easy go of it during the Second World War. This quaint Victorian town was destroyed when the Nazis dropped bomb after bomb on its perfect gardens and neat hedges. After three decades of disarray, the town council has finally begun reconstructing what’s left. All throughout Berebury, the sounds of hammers and saws drone on. But on this particular day, the noise stops.

In the crater of a bomb site, a skeleton has been found. While its presence there isn’t unusual—hundreds died in bombing raids throughout England—the manner in which the pregnant girl met her end is sinister enough that Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and his assistant, Detective Constable Crosby, are called to the scene. The cause of death, it seems, was not the blast, but a bullet to the spine.

Inspector Sloan is the best there is when it comes to cracking the most complex cases. But can he piece together a murder that’s been buried for more than a quarter century?

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ 99 cents for today only (June 8th) in Canada & the US:

The Julius House by Charlaine Harris (SYKM, ISFDB, Wikipedia), perhaps best known for her Sookie Stackhouse vampire mystery series which was adapted into the HBO show True Blood. This is the 4th in her popular Aurora Teagarden series of cozy mysteries starring a librarian who is a crime fiction aficionado, and was originally published by Worldwide Library in 1996, now offered by the Jabberwocky Literary Agency. These have apparently also been adapted for TV movies.

The sale price appears to be Amazon-only since it's part of the Kindle Daily Deal, but you can price-match it @ Kobo, where the series is DRM-free (DRMed at Amazon).

Aurora Teagarden is happily preparing for her wedding to dashing business executive Martin Bartell. As a wedding gift, Martin buys her the house of her dreams: the “Julius house,” infamously named after the family who vanished from the house without a trace six years ago. As Roe sets about renovating and decorating her new home, she’s never felt happier.

Then Martin suddenly rents the small apartment on their new property to an old army buddy and his wife, who seem to be more bodyguard than tenant, and Roe is sure her husband-to-be is keeping secrets. To take her mind off her suspicions, she opens her own unofficial investigation into the Julius family cold case. But when an axe-wielding stranger attacks her, Roe must determine whether it’s her husband’s secrets, the mystery of the Julius family’s fates, or both, that have put her own life on the chopping block.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris has once again brought Southern charm and an engaging mystery in this latest Aurora Teagarden installment. Real Murders, A Bone To Pick, Three Bedrooms, One Corpse, and the rest of the Aurora Teagarden series has been adapted into film for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.

[sufue]

Five titles in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series by Anne Perry are $1.13 at Kindle US. Most have been on sale before, so check carefully before you buy.

• Rutland Place, #5
• Paragon Walk, #3
• Bluegate Fields, #6
• Cardington Crescent, #8
• Silence in Hanover Close, #9

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

[Demingy]

Originally Posted by sufue

Five titles in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series by Anne Perry are $1.13 at Kindle US. Most have been on sale before, so check carefully before you buy.

• Rutland Place, #5
• Paragon Walk, #3
• Bluegate Fields, #6
• Cardington Crescent, #8
• Silence in Hanover Close, #9

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

I just started reading this series and I really like it so far. Thanks for posting this, I only had the first six books.

[Little.Egret]

Free, last free almost two years ago

The Coffin Lane Murders. Inspector Faro Mystery No.8 by Alanna Knight

A trail of blood leads Inspector Faro through the snow to the body of a maid sent out to post a letter. Had she a secret lover, was she the victim of a crime of passion? Or does another murder two days later indicate a serial killer at large and a reign of terror to be unleashed in Victorian Edinburgh's wealthy suburbs?

Alanna Knight MBE has now written more than sixty novels


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[maddz]

The first 3 Smiley novels by John Le Carre are 99p on the Amazon.co.uk Daily Deal:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=s9_ac...d_i=5400977031