FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[sufue]

The Devil of Nanking, apa Tokyo, is a non-series title by Mo Hayder. It was nominated for a couple of awards, per SYKM. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004L6230Y

Spoiler:

With the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-chilling characters of Thomas Harris, Mo Hayder's The Devil of Nanking, takes the reader on an electrifying literary ride from the palatial apartments of yakuza kingpins to deep inside the secret history of one of the twentieth century's most brutal events: the Nanking Massacre.

A young Englishwoman obsessed with an indecipherable past, Grey comes to Tokyo seeking a lost piece of film footage of the notorious 1937 Nanking Massacre, footage some say never existed. Only one man can help Grey. A survivor of the massacre, he is now a visiting professor at a university in Tokyo. But he will have nothing to do with her.

So Grey accepts a job in an upmarket nightspot, where a certain gangster may be the key to gaining the professor's trust. An old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage, the gangster is rumored to rely on a mysterious elixir for his continued health. Taut, gritty, sexy, and harrowing, The Devil of Nanking is an incomparable literary thriller set in one of the world's most fascinating cities-Tokyo-from an internationally best-selling author.

[sufue]

An Unkindness of Ravens is the 13th (not counting a book of short stories) in the Inspector Wexford series by Ruth Rendell. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AG8HL3U

Spoiler:

Edgar Award Finalist: When a man disappears, two wives search for their missing husband, and all the young women in Kingsmarkham seem to have a motive, Chief Inspector Wexford must untangle a complex web of secrets.

Chief Inspector Wexford finds nothing unusual in the disappearance of Rodney Williams, a husband and father who likely has run off with another woman. But when the man’s car and suitcase are discovered abandoned, can a body be far behind? Confounded by a string of violent stabbings, a strident schoolgirl clique, and the seemingly placid domesticity of his neighbors, Wexford’s detective instincts must take flight in order to bring down a murderer.

With a keen wit and even sharper plot, Rendell weaves a suspenseful web of ever-tangling secrets, double-crosses, and double-lives.

[GA Russell]

The Private Practice of Michael Shayne - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WRYER8I

[cromag]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Another one of Michael Avallone's Ed Noon series is currently free.

(19) The Flower-Covered Corpse

I haven't seen any more of Michael Avallone's Ed Noon books being given away lately, but the prices are still fluctuating. There are currently seven Ed Noon books on sale for $0.99 at the (US) Amazon Kindle store. These are likely to change, sooner or later.

Here's a list of Michael Avallone's books, ranked from least expensive to most expensive. If you're interested in the series and can't necessarily wait for more to be released "Free" these are at least pretty affordable.

HERE

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by cromag

I haven't seen any more of Michael Avallone's Ed Noon books being given away lately, but the prices are still fluctuating. There are currently seven Ed Noon books on sale for $0.99 at the (US) Amazon Kindle store. These are likely to change, sooner or later.

Here's a list of Michael Avallone's books, ranked from least expensive to most expensive. If you're interested in the series and can't necessarily wait for more to be released "Free" these are at least pretty affordable.

HERE

Always good to hear from a Noon lover.

Some of those are so cheap that I may buy them.

Gotta have my 'Noon Fix'.

There are some I have and there are some I don't have.

[sufue]

Again on US Countdown for about 5 1/2 more days if you missed it this previous time...

Originally Posted by sufue

The Fashion in Shrouds is the 11th title (more or less, depending on whether you count short story collections and things like that) in the Albert Campion series by Margery Allingham. It is a US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about 1 1/2 more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LJ1D6TG



P.S. Hate the cover, good thing it can be replaced in Calibre!

[sufue]

The Crooked Wreath (apa Suddenly at His Residence) is the third in the Inspector Cockrill series by Christianna Brand. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US and possibly others - and it's couponable/VIP-able at Kobo.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005XE5BHK
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-crooked-wreath

Spoiler:

A family patriarch is murdered on the eve of signing a new will
Sir Richard’s family has spent years waiting for him to die, but despite his weak heart, the old man simply refuses to cooperate. In the meantime, he makes their lives miserable by changing his will every few months, depending on which of his strange brood he favors that moment. Now he calls them together to announce his most diabolical revision yet: complete disinheritance of all the wastrels who bear his name. But he never gets a chance to sign the papers—by morning, he’s dead.

Scotland Yard sends Inspector Cockrill, the only detective clever enough to unravel the family’s tangle of jealousy and deceit. Each member had reason to kill Sir Richard, but which one plunged the syringe of poison into his heart? With a family this mad, nothing is as complicated as the truth.

[sufue]

I think I have figured out that Early Bird (Open Road's daily sale) tends to have their "extra" one-author or themed afternoon sales on Mondays. In any case, there is another one today - it's for seven titles by Peter Dickinson, all at $1.99. Good only for the rest of today, today being December 5 here in California.

The titles are:

• The Last Houseparty
• Perfect Gallows
• The Sinful Stones
• One Foot in the Grave
• Sleep and His Brother
• The Old English Peep Show
• The Lizard in the Cup

Kindle US link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...on&price=0-200

Kobo US link: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?Qu...cminprice=1.00

[Kieran Seymour]

Anthony Horowitz's two Sherlock Holmes novels are down to 99p at Amazon UK. Moriarty's definitely a repeat.

The House of Silk

THE GAME'S AFOOT...

It is November 1890, and London is gripped by a merciless winter. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are enjoying tea by the fire when an agitated gentleman arrives unannounced at 221b Baker Street. He begs Holmes for help, telling the unnerving story of a scar-faced man with piercing eyes who has stalked him in recent weeks.

Intrigued, Holmes and Watson find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events, stretching from the gaslit streets of London to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston and the mysterious 'House of Silk' . . .

Moriarty

Sherlock Holmes is dead.

Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind. Ably assisted by Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction, Chase must hunt down this shadowy figure, a man much feared but seldom seen, a man determined to engulf London in a tide of murder and menace.

The game is afoot . . .

[sufue]

A bunch of Ed McBain 87th Precinct titles are at $0.99 and $1.99 as part of the Kindle US "Select Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Kindle books starting at $0.99" sale. All have been on sale before. I don't know how long this sale is good.

Titles include:

• Fiddlers
• King's Ransom
• Lady Killer
• Widows
• Tricks
• Killer's Wedge
• Blood Relatives
• Hail to the Chief
• Ten Plus One
• Ice
• Calypso
• Give the Boys a Great Big Hand

link for all: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...in&price=0-200

[sufue]

In this Rain is a non-series title by SJ Rozan, whose Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series I am quite fond of. I haven't read this one. SYKM indicates it was a finalist for the 2008 Nero Award. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/this-Rain-S-J...dp/B000MAHBZA/

Spoiler:

Three years ago, a child’s death blew open a vortex of corruption inside Manhattan’s lucrative construction industry. And it sent one innocent man to jail. Joe Cole is a former city investigator who now lives a broken life, cut off from his wife and daughter, and from the city he once knew so well. But for Joe, everything changes when a woman’s murder and a teenager’s rooftop freefall rip open old wounds—and reveal a shocking layer of rage and deception.

It is Joe’s former partner, beautiful, hard-charging investigator Ann Montgomery, who first sees the lies, forcing Joe out of his self-imposed isolation to help her unravel the cover-ups and secret relationships that allow the powerful to hide their crimes. Soon, the two are entering the darkest corners of their city, delving into the hidden desires of a borough president who wants to be mayor, the motivations of a charismatic community activist, and the machinations of a mayor whose ambitions know no bounds. As the secrets of each player are exposed, as the primal forces of greed, sex, and power come to the surface, Ann and Joe know they must press their search all the way to the end—because the most powerful revelations are yet to come.

From a brilliantly choreographed press conference to a scandalous love affair gone terribly wrong, In This Rain takes us into the heart of a sprawling, brawling city—in a masterpiece of suspense that proves once again the unique and daring genius of S. J. Rozan.

[sufue]

Bright Hair About the Bone is the second in the Leatitia Talbot series by Barbara Cleverly. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Bright-About-.../dp/B001ANUQ4G

Spoiler:

In Burgundy, France, in 1926, a famed archaeologist dies a terrible death in a country not his own.…Thus begins CWA Historical Dagger Award winner Barbara Cleverly’s dazzling new mystery novel. And soon aspiring archaeologist Laetitia Talbot will find herself embroiled in a murderous conspiracy centuries in the making.

Letty’s joy at snaring a place in the excavation of an ancient church in Burgundy is dimmed by the tragedy of her godfather Daniel’s violent death. But when Letty receives a posthumous encoded message, she begins to believe that Daniel’s death was not a random act. Her investigation into Daniel’s murder sends her on a journey into a country’s remote history…into the orbit of a privileged French family harboring its own damning secret…into ancient Celtic mysteries and one sacred truth kept through the ages. It is an explosive revelation that could rock modern Christianity—and force a killer out of the shadows as a country devastated by one war lays the groundwork for another.…

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Inspector Proby's Christmas by John Gano repeat

Spoiler:

Snow is falling in Hampton and the city's inhabitants are busy with festive preparations when a young woman is savagely murdered in the city's picturesque cathedral.

Then another young woman is murdered…and another…

Inspector Proby is assigned to the case.

As a seasoned detective, it’s not difficult for him to figure out who did it, but proving it is another matter altogether.

It will take all of his wit and courage to catch this killer before he strikes again.

But his quest takes a dramatic turn when he finds out his own wife is sleeping with the killer.

Was she involved with the slaughter?

The chilling killer watches Proby…taunts him…thinking he’s got away with his crimes…

With the superintendent away on holiday, and the Chief Constable threatening suspension, Proby is not sure he can rely on his own police department.

Everyone doubts Proby’s ability to solve this case, but his instincts point him in the direction of one vital clue…

The inspector must use the only person he can rely on as bait but is Proby willing to pay the ultimate price?

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inspector-P...ndeavour+press

US
https://www.amazon.com/Inspector-Pro...ndeavour+press

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

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Inspector-Prob...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Sting of Death by Shelley Smith

Spoiler:

Love can be deadly…

Linda Campion, a mother to four children, is looking forward to her husband returning from the war.

Yet immediately after his return, Linda’s body is found at the bottom of the stairs at the Hawkswood Estate.

Everyone’s first instinct – she fell.

But when the cause of death is found to be something much more sinister, everyone becomes a suspect.

With no known enemies, and a house full of people who adore her, the police are clueless as to who might be the killer.

Who would have the motive to murder an innocent young woman?

Could it be her cheating husband who has conveniently disappeared? The jealous mistress? The man whose affections remain unreturned?

As mysteries unravel, and skeletons come out of the closet, the chilling truth is slowly revealed.

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sting-Death...ndeavour+press

US
https://www.amazon.com/Sting-Death-S...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Sting-Deat...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Sting-Death-Sh...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Where Blood Runs Deep by Edmund Glasby

Spoiler:

Small community. Big secrets.

When police fail to solve the disappearance of a young man, Private Investigator Patrick Haskell is called to investigate.

Before he went missing, Reg Coombes, an avid historian, had been researching the existence of so-called ‘ghost villages’ – old, deserted communities.

One such village, Witherych, is said to be located close to the isolated hamlet of Marshwood.

Marshwood also happens to be the location of Coombes’ last-known whereabouts.

On the hunt for answers, Haskell travels to Marshwood undercover, using the alias Patrick Harley.

But what begins as a routine investigation soon goes awry as Haskell’s questions are quickly met with the suspicion and hostility of the small community.

And while the residents of Marshwood maintain that Coombes returned to London, Haskell is convinced that something more sinister is at play.

As he digs deeper, Haskell soon discovers that the Marshwood residents are not exactly what they seem…

Drawn into a sordid tale of abduction and murder, will Haskell be able to uncover the twisted secrets of the tiny village?

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Blood...ndeavour+press

US
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Blood-R...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Where-Bloo...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Where-Blood-Ru...ndeavour+press