FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[GA Russell]

Janet Evanovich: Stephanie Plum series...

Two for the Dough - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/Two-Dough-Step...dp/B000FC0VZW/

Three to Get Deadly - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Get-Dead...dp/B000FC0VLQ/

*****

Burglars Can't be Choosers - Lawrence Block - 99 cents
http://www.amazon.com/Burglars-Choos...dp/B000FC1PJ8/

[phloxy]

Murder in the Worst Degree (#10 in the Rocky Bluff PD series)
Free (until April 5)

Amazon

the body that washes up on the beach leads Detectives Milligan and Zachary on a murder investigation that includes the victim’s family members, his housekeeper, three long-time friends, and a mystery woman.

[GA Russell]

The Broken Window - Jeffery Deaver - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/The-Broken-Win...dp/B0013A1J74/

[sufue]

Love Lies Bleeding is the eighth in the DCI Joseph Rafferty and DS Dafyd LLewellyn series by Geraldine Evans. It is free right now at Kindle US, no idea for how long.

link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BMAQPQA/

Spoiler:

A Liitle Laughter. A Little Mayhem. A Little MURDER...
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For Readers who like cozy mysteries, humorous mysteries and police procedurals.
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A most unlikely killer, is British Detective Joe Rafferty's immediate thought, when the slender and bloodied Felicity Raine stumbles into the police station and confesses to murdering her husband.

Rafferty thinks her even more unlikely a murderer when he meets her in-laws and catches them out in several deceits. There is something peculiar going on, he is convinced. Because although Felicity isn't down to receive any financial benefit from her husband's death, others in the Raine family are. Is one of them attempting to set Felicity up to take the murder rap?

The case prompts Rafferty to more deeply investigate what lies beneath the surface -- not only in his current investigation, but in his tangled personal life, too.

The first in this series, Dead Before Morning, is a long-time freebie at Kindle US, but I thought I'd list it here as well, so if folks don't already have it and want to try the first one in the series, they can.

link: http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Before-Mo...dp/B004EYUHN8/

Spoiler:

DI Joseph Rafferty had three problems: His boss, his family and a murder. He knows which one he'd choose, if he had a choice. He'd take the murder of the ‘Faceless Lady’, any time, over the other two, even though he loves his family. Well, some of the time, anyway. Only he’s not given a choice. He must find her killer, while keeping his family’s current legal entanglements downwind of his boss. Otherwise, he risks failure, exposure and career crash.

'This often comic tale sharpens the appetite for more.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

'Evans' humor seriously added to my enjoyment of her book. The series has stand out central characters and clever plots. AUNT AGATHA'S BOOKSHOP, ANN ARBOR

The first book in the quirky, not quite so Traditional, British mystery series.

[sufue]

The three titles in the Angel Delaney series by Patricia H Rushford have all dropped recently at Kindle US.

Deadly Aim, #1, was free or very cheap back in 2013, because I have it . It is $2.99 now.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00702M3O2

Spoiler:

Angel Delaney puts up a tough front-as a female police officer she must. She works for peace in her coastal Oregon town, but loathes the means she must sometimes use to get it. So when her line of duty requires her to use deadly force against a twelve-year-old boy, Angel's world begins to crumble.

The community wants answers, and Angel is dismayed to find that the media portrays her as a racist, a rogue cop, and a menace. While she works to clear her name and her conscience, the investigation into her use of deadly force creates more questions than answers.

The detective working on Angel's case, has his hands full when crucial evidence disappears and other people are found murdered. Do these killings relate to the boy's death? Is Angel next?

"Angel Delaney is a character with real staying power. The story will keep you flipping pages as you get caught up, not only in the police procedural, but also Angel's personal life. Can't wait for the next installment!" - James Scott Bell, author of A Higher Justice

Dying to Kill, #2, is also $2.99 right now.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007764ODY

Spoiler:

Multiple murder victims, ugly secrets, mysterious disappearances . . .

What happened to the peaceful Sunset Cove?

Angel Delaney can't quite shake the detective in her, even though she's taking a break from the pressures of police work. So when she receives a call for help from a resident in her coastal Oregon town, she rushes right over. And so begins a twisting, multiple murder investigation that Angel is determined to unravel.

Ignoring the advice of local law enforcement and her almost-boyfriend, Callen, Angel becomes a private eye. She begins to uncover clues that lead her to a growing list of suspects, including a few who Angel never thought could have committed such crimes.

As the evidence mounts, more murders are uncovered, people disappear, and Angel's own life is threatened. Should she have resisted the urge to get involved? Who is committing these murders and why? Can Angel figure it out before it's too late?

As Good As Dead, #3, has dropped to $3.03.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00702M2JI

Spoiler:

A private investigator + a missing brother + a notorious crime family = a deadly mix

When Angel Delaney's father dies, her family gathers to pay their last respects . . . all except for one, her brother Luke, who mysteriously disappeared six years ago. As a private investigator, Angel has often thought about trying to find her brother, but she reasoned her way out of it time and time again. Now, as her family comes together, Angel's investigative instincts tell her that Luke may be closer than anyone thinks. And this time, she can't ignore her gut.

So without her family's knowledge, Angel begins investigating Luke's mysterious disappearance and his apparent connection with a high-profile Mafia family. Angel can't believe her brother is a criminal, but her search for the truth takes her on an adventure across state lines and into the lives of more than a few suspicious characters. When a family friend is shot and a rash of violence claims more victims, Angel realizes she's unwittingly stumbled into a web of danger, the likes of which she's never faced before.

Has Angel gone too far this time?

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK- Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Dozen bu Val Andrews

Spoiler:

In Val Andrews’ Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Dozen you will find marvellous tales of intrigue and mystery....   
  The Lobster Quadrille
Colonel Archibald Fanshawe, from Watson’s Afghanistan days, bumps into his old comrade and proceeds to invite Watson and Holmes for dinner with him and his wife. As the dinner is in full swing and the main course gets underway it is apparent to Holmes that something is afoot after Fanshawe falls gravely ill at dinner…
 
The Gantry Point Wreckers
Take a trip away from Baker Street whilst Holmes recuperates on doctor’s orders and has some well-earned rest in the North Devon town of Bideford. Not too long after arriving in the town Holmes’ rested mind begins to work overtime as he soon begins unravelling the mystery of sinking ships in the next town along.
 
Sherlock Holmes and the Gypsy Switch
Mrs Joan Moran’s trip out to Streatham to ogle at Middle Eastern oddities culminates in a new case for Holmes and Watson. They must discover how her husband, who has been dead for some time, is able to gift her with gold coins from beyond the grave in this chilling tale.
 
The Kinema Mystery
In an unusual case Holmes must save the owner of several kinemas from a thief who is able to walk through walls and disappear without a trace. Leaving in their wake a series of robberies targeting the kinema owner and stealing valuable objects, Holmes must use all his nous to solve this case.
 
The Baker Street Conjurer
George Dean, proprietor and owner of the tavern ‘Cold Cut and Tankard’ requires the help of Holmes and Watson to ascertain how a conjurer who entertains his paying guests may or may not be magically stealing his earnings from right under his nose.
 
Plus many more stories.

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sherlock-Hol...ndeavour+press

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http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holme...ndeavour+press


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http://www.amazon.ca/Sherlock-Holmes...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK- Artless by Kathy Hammad

Spoiler:

Selina Morgan works in one of the most prestigious auction houses in London.

She is delighted and honoured when she is asked to be part of a team invited to America to catalogue the famous Kitson Collection, not least because she finds William Kitson magnetically attractive – and it seems he may feel the same about her.

In the rarefied atmosphere of the art and antiques world, Selina Morgan has an enviable job.

Surrounded by beautiful and precious works of art (to say nothing of her glamorous friend and colleague Marcus), Selina could never have expected that one day she’d become involved in the world of art theft, gangs, and subterfuge.

Could this be connected with the handsome but aloof Bill Kiston?

A Renoir has been stolen from the home of some friends, and Bill seems uncomfortable discussing it.

When Selina discovers Kitson has a painting hidden in his office she begins to wonder if she has misjudged him.

And when she discovers her boss, André, and another colleague, Gabriela, behaving strangely, and hears about the potential involvement of the Russian mafia, she follows them and her adventure begins.

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Artless-Kath...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Artless-Kathy-...ndeavour+press


Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Artless-Kat...ndeavour+press


Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Artless-Kathy-H...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK- The Ten Green Brothers by Angus MacVicar

Spoiler:

Scotland, the 1930’s.

Peter Hamilton is a journalist deciding where to go on holiday when he finds an innocent looking green button lying in the street.

While drinking coffee in a local establishment he is approached by a beautiful woman, advising him he is late for the ‘meeting’.

Unwilling to correct her, for fear of her leaving, Hamilton goes along with the ruse.

Little does he know he’s about to be thrown into the middle of a deadly conspiracy.

The Green Company, a gathering of ten extremely wealthy and influential members of society, are plotting to bring the nation to war for their own selfish gain, leaving the country vulnerable to the Great War that is brewing across Europe.

The Secret Service agents working on this case convince Hamilton to work undercover as an informant.

Can Hamilton infiltrate the group successfully and achieve his objective while keeping his true identity hidden?

Will the Green Company succeed in bring the country to war?

Success rests solely on the shoulders of a Scottish journalist and his ability to think quickly in the most terrifying of situations.

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ten-Green-Br...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Green-Brot...ndeavour+press


Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Ten-Green-B...ndeavour+press


Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Ten-Green-Broth...ndeavour+press

[sufue]

Size 14 Is Not Fat Either is the second in the Heather Wells series by Meg Cabot. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US.

link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MAH7E0

Spoiler:

Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College—a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend's upcoming nuptials, which the press has dubbed The Celebrity Wedding of the Decade. But she's definitely having a hard time dealing with the situation in the dormitory kitchen—where a cheerleader has lost her head on the first day of the semester. (Actually, her head is accounted for—it's her torso that's AWOL.)

Surrounded by hysterical students—with her ex-con father on her doorstep and her ex-love bombarding her with unwanted phone calls—Heather welcomes the opportunity to play detective . . . again. If it gets her mind off her personal problems—and teams her up again with the gorgeous P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives—it's all good. But the murder trail is leading the average-sized amateur investigator into a shadowy world. And if she doesn't watch her step, Heather will soon be singing her swan song!

The first in the series, Size 12 Is Not Fat, goes up and down a lot in price. It's $1.99 right now, which is not bad, so if you want to start the series with the first one before reading the second one, here's the info.

link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FCKM10

Spoiler:

Heather Wells Rocks!

Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.

The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. But Heather knows teenage girls . . . and girls do not elevator surf. Yet no one wants to listen -- not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives -- even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective!

But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong . . .

[sanjon]

I just finished reading Chasing Ivan by Tim Tigner. I hadn't heard of him before but happened to come across his book on the free Kindle bestsellers website I run. It's short but definitely entertaining! Already purchased another book by him.

It's gone back up to $2.99 already, but the author gives it away for free as well if you sign up to the newsletter on his website.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AAXMLVW
Author's Website: http://timtigner.com/books/chasing-ivan

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK- Missing, Presumed Dead by J M Gregson

Spoiler:

Detective Inspector ‘Percy’ Peach is not a natural sportsman.

However, as chance would have it, a recent discovery at his local club might just allow for his other talents to come to the fore.

A body has been found on the golf course.

It is that of a pregnant young woman, killed by strangulation.

Upon examining the body, they make a troubling discovery.

Her corpse has been there approximately two years.

Peach is given the case, but along with a cold trail, he must contend with his new sidekick, one DS Blake, as well as Tommy Tucker, his snobbish superior.

From the girl’s grieving parents to her former flames, everyone seems to know more about this case than they are letting on.

As the suspect list lengthens, Peach realises that the killer might be closer to home than he first thought…

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-Pres...ndeavour+press


US
http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Presum...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Missing-Pre...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Missing-Presume...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK- An Open Window by Roger Ormerod

Spoiler:

As Amelia Patton approaches a caravan parked in their usual spot, it explodes, killing the woman inside.

As she recovers in a hospital near the Welsh coast, she learns that she is the residual legatee in her uncle’s will.

As she cannot attend the reading herself, her husband, ex-Detective Inspector Richard Patton, drives to the Midlands on her behalf.

He finds that the word ‘residual’ can be extremely deceptive, and that the will is bound to provoke trouble between the children of Amelia’s eccentric uncle, Walter Mann, who died just two days after signing the new will.

Richard is intrigued by this: Walter had become a virtual recluse and locked himself away in his rooms.

But when he was found, having fallen from the third-story window and through the roof of his conservatory, the key for the door was on its chain around his neck.

Was it suicide?

In which case—why?

Or if it was murder, as Patton believes, how had the culprit entered the room?

And why the open window?

Faced with enmity and suspicion, and strongly discouraged from intervening by the police, controversies over shares in the family business, and a drama of love and betrayal, all make this one of Richard’s most difficult cases yet—especially with him hundreds of miles away from the hospitalised Amelia, and wondering whether the caravan explosion was in fact intended for her…

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Window-...ndeavour+press


US
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Window-Ri...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Open-Window...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Open-Window-Ric...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK (repeat)- The Big One by John Cutter

Spoiler:

Jack Sullivan has a target he can’t resist and an assignment he can’t refuse.

On a fortress Caribbean Island, a neo-Nazi strongman named Reichstone and his army of mad-dog killers rule a tortured people and a harem of drug-seduced sex slaves.

There is no-one to stop this vicious bunch from swallowing up the entire region except The Specialist…

When the father of one of Reichstone’s many victims asks Sullivan for help there is never any doubt that he will accept this highly specialised mission.

In order to save one very vulnerable girl from the clutches of this monster, Sullivan must penetrate the island fortress – a seemingly impossible task.

Surrounded by trained killers, professional soldiers and a terrified population, Reichstone thinks himself untouchable – and he may be right.

However Jack Sullivan never gives up and he will not rest until he makes Reichstone pay for his sins.

Sullivan is going to teach the most savage of killers that the tide of death can flow two ways…

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-One-Book...ndeavour+press


US
http://www.amazon.com/Big-One-Book-S...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Big-One-Boo...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Big-One-Book-Si...ndeavour+press

[sufue]

Topaz by Leon Uris has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US and Kobo US (where it should be couponable).

Kindle US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005O3PLEI
Kobo US: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/topaz-1

Spoiler:

On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis, American and French intelligence agents are plunged into a maze of Cold War intrigue

In Paris, 1962, French intelligence chief André Devereaux and NATO intelligence chief Michael Nordstrom have uncovered Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms to Cuba. But when Devereaux reports his findings and nobody acts—and he is targeted in an assassination attempt—he soon realizes he’s tangled in a plot far greater than he first understood. The two agents, along with a small band of Cuban exiles and Soviet defectors, chase leads around the globe in a quest to save NATO, themselves, and perhaps the world itself.

Topaz is a fast-paced but deeply informed thriller.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Leon Uris including rare photos from the author’s estate.

[sufue]

Margarita Nights is the first in the Sherri Travis series by Phyllis Smallman. Per SYKM, it was a finalist for the 2009 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US and Kobo US, no idea why or for how long. Probably couponable at Kobo US.

Kindle US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005Q46YZU
Kobo US: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...arita-nights-1

Spoiler:

Margarita Nights is a cozy with grit -- serving Jack Daniels instead of tea.

In a small Florida beach town, Sherri Travis is a bartender with attitude and a woman with an inconveniently murdered husband who turns out to be as much trouble to her dead as he was alive.

Sifting through the debris of Jimmy's life, Sherri finds more than a few people who wanted her lying, scheming, scam artist husband gone -- but which one actually did the deed?