FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Living in Dread (Anna McColl Mystery Book 6) by Penny Kline

Spoiler:

How long will it take to get to the truth?

When psychologist Anna McColl is rendered homeless by a house fire, she finds temporary accommodation in the annex of a house owned by Eric Newsom.

It is only after she moves in however that she learns that Newsom’s wife Nikki had been stabbed several months previously, her body discovered in the kitchen by her small son, Charlie, and the killer never found.

The police still view Eric Newsom as their number one suspect, but Anna is convinced vital clues have been overlooked.

And as a psychologist, Anna is never really off duty.

Soon, a mysterious caller begins to leave her hints about the murder.

A difficult student has taken to following her around town.

And Eric Newsom begins to randomly disappear, leaving Anna alone to look after little Charlie.

Concerned for Charlie’s well-being, Anna suddenly finds herself swept into the ongoing murder investigation.

But as the details of Nikki’s life grow ever more complicated, will Anna be able to work out the reason for its brutal end?

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[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Lovers of War by Stephen Barlay

Spoiler:

The Vietnam War is over.

Americans and Vietnamese alike are fleeing the past horrors of war and those that could await them under the new regime.

Among those preparing to leave is Dan Deacon, an American soldier waiting at the Last Fortress America embassy in Saigon, for the appearance of his Vietnamese fiancée Linh-Lan, and their daughter Mary-Mai.

But when they fail to show up at the embassy to claim their priority clearance for evacuation, the future he had planned playing happy families in America is shattered.

Instead he returns alone, trying to forget Vietnam.

But Deacon, haunted by the unknown fate of his beloved, cannot move on.

After failing to reintegrate into suburban American life and a stint in prison, he soon returns to Asia, along with fellow Vietnam vet and drifter, Cream.

His mission - to find out what happened to Linh-Lan and Mary-Mai.

His search takes him from refugee camps to the South China Sea, where pirates roam, attacking and robbing the helpless refugee boats that stream in their thousands from war-torn Vietnam.

Was this the fate that befell Linh-Lan and their daughter?

After becoming embroiled with the Hong Kong underworld, his mission seems increasingly suicidal, but Deacon will not rest until he finds them.

But the question remains if this is a noble act of revenge, or simply evidence that Deacon cannot give up the thrill and violence of war?

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[Mort1997]

Repeats if you missed them before


Red Shadow: A Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth (N/A in US)

Spoiler:

“They are letting me say good-bye. I’m to be shot to-morrow. It will be over by the time you get this…”

Laura stood, pale and trembling, in the veiled dress she was to have worn as Jim Mackenzie’s bride, and gave her word to marry Basil Stevens, a man she scarcely knew. In his unexpected visit Basil had made three things clear: Laura was the heiress of the great Hallingdon fortune; Jim faced a Soviet firing squad; and only this marriage would save Jim. Why? What was the plot that threatened to destroy him?

It was not until Laura phoned Jim late one night after he had returned to England, half insane with grief, that he had an inkling of the truth about the remorseless power back of it all, and its single, far-reaching purpose. How Jim saves Laura from her fate underlies one of the most exciting mysteries Patricia Wentworth has written.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Shadow-...icia+wentworth

https://www.amazon.com.au/Red-Shadow...icia+wentworth

https://www.amazon.ca/Red-Shadow-Gol...icia+wentworth

Death in the Dentist's Chair: A Golden Age Mystery by Molly Thynne

Spoiler:

Constantine reflected on the various means dentists have at their disposal should they wish to silence their patients …

Mr Humphrey Davenport, society dentist, has an embarrassing problem – he has managed to get locked out of his own surgery. And to make matters worse, Mrs Charles Miller is locked inside, minus her false teeth. When the door is finally opened, the patient is found with her throat cut.

Dr. Constantine, a fellow patient at the clinic, is a witness to the gruesome discovery. He lends his chess player’s brain to solving a locked room mystery with a difference, ably assisted by Detective-Inspector Arkwright. Was the murderer the theatrical Mrs Vallon? Or little Mr Cattistick, who recognized the fortune in jewels around the dead woman's neck? Or perhaps it was Sir Richard Pomfrey, the subject of an unusually venomous look from Mrs Miller shortly before her demise?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Denti...icia+wentworth

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Dentist...icia+wentworth

https://www.amazon.com.au/Death-Dent...icia+wentworth

https://www.amazon.ca/Death-Dentists...icia+wentworth

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by 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?

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This is the GREAT Edmund Glasby, for you youngsters here under 50.


Got it!

Thank you!

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

This is the GREAT Edmund Glasby, for you youngsters here under 50.


Got it!

Thank you!

Never heard of him, but I picked it up too, based on the description. Glad to know the author's got some fame!

[piperclassique]

Thank you, Mort. Always good stuff in your posts!

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Never heard of him, but I picked it up too, based on the description. Glad to know the author's got some fame!

Well, I'm a big fan of his writings - both horror and mystery fiction. And he's very well regarded.

[Little.Egret]

Free

Eric Ambler: A Literary Biography by Peter Lewis

Eric Ambler is widely regarded as one of the most important thriller writers of the twentieth century.

In the 1930s he set out to give respectability to a genre that he rightly recognised needed to be rescued from its status as pulp fiction.

With six landmark novels published between 1936 and 1940, Ambler laid the foundations for the post-war generation of writers who raised the spy novel to a form of literature.

A full-length study of Ambler's life and work.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MAWQAEO/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MAWQA...cm_cd_asin_lnk
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01MAWQAEO/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk

And still Free

The Schirmer Inheritance by Eric Ambler


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014EF9XR2/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B014EF9XR2/
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B014EF9XR2/

[badgoodDeb]

Not free US. Not even purchasable at all (though the price of $11.99 does show).

Just for the record.

[basschick]

i just picked it up for free, and i'm in the u.s.

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Not free US. Not even purchasable at all (though the price of $11.99 does show).

Just for the record.

[badgoodDeb]

I meant the "And still Free -- The Schirmer Inheritance by Eric Ambler". I bet you meant the "life & work of" ?

[basschick]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

I meant the "And still Free -- The Schirmer Inheritance by Eric Ambler". I bet you meant the "life & work of" ?

sorry - i bet i did, too.

[jselby]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Not free US. Not even purchasable at all (though the price of $11.99 does show).

Just for the record.

I clicked the kindle format button and it brought up a different edition which is available in the US at the $11.99 price.

https://www.amazon.com/Schirmer-Inhe.../dp/B005PRF5GW

Just for the record

[sufue]

Eight titles by Helene Tursten are $2.99 at Kindle US right now (except the first, which is $1.99).

link for them all (plus one stray): https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...en&price=0-300

Titles are:

• Detective Inspector Huss, #1
• Night Rounds, #2
• The Torso, #3
• The Glass Devil, #4
• The Golden Calf, #5
• The Fire Dance, #6
• The Beige Man, #7
• The Treacherous Net, #8

[sufue]

Legacy of the Dead is the fourth in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series by Charles Todd. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Dead-I.../dp/B000XUDH5W

Spoiler:

The weathered remains found on a Scottish mountainside may be those of Eleanor Gray, but the imperious Lady Maude Gray, Eleanor's mother, will have to be handled delicately. This is not the only ground that Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard must tread carefully, for the case will soon lead him to Scotland, where many of Rutledge's ghosts rest uneasily. But it is an unexpected encounter that will hold the most peril.

For in Scotland Rutledge will find that the young mother accused of killing Eleanor Gray is a woman to whom he owes a terrible debt. And his harrowing journey to find the truth will lead him back through the fires of his past, into secrets that still have the power to kill.