FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[cromag]

Dead Angler, the first in Victoria Houston's Loon Lake Mysteries, is either on sale or has had a price reduction. It's now $0.75 at Amazon (and $0.99 at Kobo) US stores. I haven't checked other countries. This story was originally published by Berkley. The current ebook is published by Tyrus Books (F+W Media), but the link at Tyrus redirects to Adams Media.

I don't know if this is a limited time sale or a permanent reduction, but I've never seen a price of 75 cents at Amazon.

Anyway, I really liked this book. It reads like a "cozy," but it's a bit too gritty to fit neatly in that genre. I've since read, and enjoyed, a few more in the series. It has about 4 stars at Goodreads.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...eries_rw_dp_sw

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/dead-angler

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK -Dead man walking by J F Straker


UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Man-Wal...al-text&sr=1-4

US
http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Man-Walki...al-text&sr=1-4

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Dead-Man-Wa...al-text&sr=1-4

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Dead-Man-Walkin...al-text&sr=1-4

[sufue]

Not My Blood is the tenth in the excellent (IMO) Joe Sandilands series by Barbara Cleverly. It has recently dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Not-Blood-Sand...dp/B007DY5SX0/

Spoiler:

Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy named Jackie Drummond, who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never knew he had. Jackie is in trouble at his Sussex boarding school, where a teacher has been murdered. When Joe gets himself assigned to the investigation, he learns the boarding school case is more complicated than it appears: A frightening number of boys, all from wealthy families, have gone missing over the school’s history, and by some coincidence none of the families have followed up on their sons' whereabouts.

While I was looking at Cleverly's books, I also noticed that two other titles in the Sandilands series are only $2.99, which is a very reasonable price for backlist titles IMO. They appear to be long-term priced at $2.99, not any special sale, but since I'm listing Not My Blood, I thought I'd mention these two also.

The Palace Tiger is the fourth in the series.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Palace-Tiger-J...dp/B00OGUX00M/

Spoiler:

India, 1922. In this, the fourth in the acclaimed Joe Sandilands series, Scotland Yard detective Joe arrives in the princely state of Ranipur at the request of the Maharajah, an old ally of the British. The Maharajah is dying, and the succession is unclear. The death of his first son, while panther-wrestling, is suspicious, but as Joe begins to investigate a second son dies dramatically right before his eyes. With only the youngest, aged 12, now left to succeed, can Joe ensure his survival? In the glittering and luxurious setting of the court with its array of powerful, scheming characters, Joe must find his way through the maze of intrigue to trap, at last, the palace tiger.

The Bee's Kiss is the fifth in the series.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Bees-Kiss-Joe-...dp/B00OGUX5MU/

Spoiler:

1926, and Joe Sandilands is back from India, enjoying the frantic pleasures of Jazz Age London. Yet, there is a darkness behind all that postwar gaiety. A woman has been discovered bludgeoned to death in her suite at the Ritz. A broken window and missing emerald necklace suggest that it is a burglary gone wrong. But the corpse is that of a much-respected member of the British establishment, Dame Beatrice Joliffe, one of the founders of the Wrens, and so Scotland Yard send Joe to conduct a swift enquiry. Her companion, an ex-chorus girl, falls from Waterloo Bridge at twilight.

Two of the Dame's clique of eager young Wrens commit suicide. All these deaths make Joe suspect that Beatrice has been killed by someone close to her but suddenly he finds that the case is closed and he is asked by his superiors to surrender his files. Against the background of the looming General Strike, and pressure from unseen governmental presences he struggles on, picking his way through the political panic and rebelling against authority, through to a shattering solution to the killings.

[sufue]

A bunch of Kensington first-in-series price drops to $1.99 at Kindle US. Most have been on sale before, but if you like Kensington's cozy mysteries you might find something here:

Antiques Roadkill, first in the Trash 'n' Treasures series by Barbara Allan.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004NNUZ3W

Spoiler:

Determined to make a new start in her quaint hometown on the banks of the Mississippi, Brandy Borne never dreams she'll become the prime suspect in a murder case. . .

Moving back in with her eccentric, larger-than-life mother, Brandy Borne finds small-town Serenity anything but serene. It seems an unscrupulous antiques dealer has swindled Vivian out of the family's heirlooms. But when he is found run over in a country lane, Brandy becomes Murder Suspect Number One--with her mother coming in a very close second. . .

The list of other suspects is impressive--the victim's business seems to have been based on bilking seniors out of their possessions. And when the Borne "girls" uncover a few very unsavory Serenity secrets, they become targets for a murderer whose favorite hobby seems to be collecting victims.

Scene of the Climb is the first in the Pacific Northwest series by Kate Dyer-Seeley.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GYLVTO0

Spoiler:

Portland, Oregon, is the perfect fit for someone like Meg Reed. It's a city with a small town feel, where she can crash on the couch of her best friend Jill, now that she's graduated from journalism school. . .

But a girl needs a job, so Meg bluffs her way into writing for Northwest Extreme magazine, passing herself off to editor-in-chief Greg Dixon as an outdoor adventure enthusiast. Never mind that Meg's idea of sport is climbing onto the couch without spilling her latte. So when she finds herself clawing to the top of Angel's Rest--a two-thousand-foot peak--to cover the latest challenge in a reality TV adventure show, she can't imagine feeling more terrified. Until she witnesses a body plummet off the side of the cliff. Now Meg has a murder to investigate. And if the climbing doesn't kill her, a murderer just might. . .

Scrapbook of Secrets is the first in the Cumberland Creek series by Mollie Cox Bryan.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005QFC6VK

Spoiler:

Having traded in her career as a successful investigative journalist for the life of a stay-at-home mom in picturesque Cumberland Creek, Virginia, Annie can't help but feel that something's missing. But she finds solace in a local "crop circle" of scrapbookers united by chore-shy husbands, demanding children, and occasional fantasies of their former single lives. And when the quiet idyll of their small town is shattered by a young mother's suicide, they band together to find out what went wrong. . .

Annie resurrects her reporting skills and discovers that Maggie Rae was a closet scrapbooker who left behind more than a few secrets--and perhaps a few enemies. As they sift through Maggie Rae's mysteriously discarded scrapbooks, Annie and her "crop" sisters begin to suspect that her suicide may have been murder. It seems that something sinister is lurking beneath the town's beguilingly calm façade--like a killer with unfinished business. . .

Caught Dead Handed is the first in the Witch City series by Carol J. Perry.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IUPCLBI

Spoiler:

Most folks associate the city of Salem, Massachusetts with witches, but for Lee Barrett, it's home. This October she's returned to her hometown--where her beloved Aunt Ibby still lives--to interview for a job as a reporter at WICH-TV. But the only opening is for a call-in psychic to host the late night horror movies. It seems the previous host, Ariel Constellation, never saw her own murder coming.

Lee reluctantly takes the job, but when she starts seeing real events in the obsidian ball she's using as a prop, she wonders if she might really have psychic abilities. To make things even spookier, it's starting to look like Ariel may have been an actual practicing witch--especially when O'Ryan, the cat Lee and Aunt Ibby inherited from her, exhibits some strange powers of his own. With Halloween fast approaching, Lee must focus on unmasking a killer--or her career as a psychic may be very short lived. . .

All Fudged Up is the first in the Candy-Coated series by Nancy Coco.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CSX8UQI

Spoiler:

Welcome to the Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop--where life is sweet, revenge is sweeter, and murder is here to to stay. . .

You Can't Fudge An Alibi

Allie McMurphy is up to her neck in renovations at the grand old hotel that's been in her family for generations. With its quaint Victorian charm--and world-famous fudge shop--the place is one of Mackinac Island's most beloved landmarks.

Sure, every family has a skeleton or two in the closet. But Allie didn't expect to find an actual corpse inside hers, especially one Joe Jessup, who had a long-running feud with her dear departed grandfather. Which makes Allie the number-one suspect.

Can she sniff out the culprit before another victim checks in?

Dial C for Chihuahua is the first in the Barking Detective series by Waverly Curtis.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007XIC0KA

Spoiler:

"I am Pepe. But you can call me el Jefe."

Pepe may have soft white fur, big brown eyes, and mucho attitude--but he's no furry fashion fad. Pepe can talk--even if his new owner, Geri Sullivan, seems to be the only person who can understand him.

When Geri takes on her first assignment for a quirky investigator named Jimmy G and stumbles over a Seattle millionaire's corpse, Pepe proves to be worth his weight in liver treats. Suspicion falls on the not-so-grieving widow, who wants to finance a reality TV show, Dancing With Dogs.

Normally, Pepe wouldn't be caught muerte in a sparkly costume. However, he has to sniff out the real killer and keep Geri safe. Lesser dogs might flinch. But Pepe isn't the kind to turn tail and run. . .

Forget Me Knot is the first in the Quilting Mystery series by Mary Marks.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DV1IVCE

Spoiler:

Welcome to San Fernando Valley, California, where Martha Rose and her coterie of quilters are enjoying life on the good side of retirement—until murder pulls a stitch out of their plans. . .

Martha and her besties Lucy and Birdie are set to expand their Quilty Tuesdays by inviting newcomer Claire Terry into their group. Though at forty Claire's a tad younger than their average age, her crafty reputation could perk up their patchwork proceedings, especially as they prepare for the fancy quilt show coming to town. But when they arrive at Claire's home and find her dead inside the front door, and her exquisite, prize-winning quilts soon missing, Martha is not one to leave a mystery unraveled. Especially if she wants to stop a killer from establishing a deadly pattern. . .

Kilt Dead is the first in the Liss MacCrimmon series by Kaitlyn Dunnett.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EFANRM4

Spoiler:

As a professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon has performed strathsprays and reels, jigs and Highland flings until a knee injury cuts her career short. Returning to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, she decides to help her aunt run her Scottish emporium.

Liss hasn't been in Moosetookalook in over ten years, but the quaint little town, nestled in the hilly terrain of western Maine, looks exactly as she remembers it. But then her bliss soon turns to dread when she finds the dead body of her aunt's nosy neighbor, Amanda Norris, under a bolt of Flower of Scotland fabric in the stock room. And if things weren't bad enough, the state police hone in on Liss as the prime suspect.

Now Liss will have to do some fancy footwork to prove she's innocent while avoiding becoming the killer's next victim. . .

Going Organic Can Kill You is the first in the Blossom Valley series by Staci McLaughlin.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00746OQRQ

Spoiler:

Welcome to Blossom Valley, CA, home of the O'Connell Organic Farm and Spa, complete with its new marketing maven, Dana Lewis, former Blossom Valley resident and unapologetic junk food connoisseur--and soon to be sleuth. . .

As Dana readjusts to life back home with her recently widowed mother, her latest career move isn't exactly a piece of cake. In fact, it's all tofu fish sticks, stuffed squash blossoms, and enough wheat grass shots to scream bloody murder--especially when Dana discovers the body of Maxwell Mendelsohn, Hollywood producer and opening weekend guest, deader than a yoga corpse pose. While Dana pens the Spa's blog and balances the attentions of the local police and reporter Jason Forrester, her escalating job duties now include finding clues, motives and suspects. One thing's for certain, she better act fast before all this healthy living kills her.

By Cook or by Crook is the first in the Five-Ingredient series by Maya Corrigan.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JVW6H8M

Spoiler:

Take one burned-out city girl. Add a crusty codger, a pinch of gossip, and a dash of romance. Stir in a generous helping of murder and you've got the ingredients for one truly delicious mystery. . .
Haunted by the car accident that ended her career as a cookbook publicist, Val Deniston has traded in the chaos of New York City for a quieter life near the Chesapeake Bay. Living with her curmudgeonly grandfather in the tourist town of Bayport is hardly glamorous, but she enjoys working at the Cool Down Café at the local fitness club, and she finally has time to work on her long-planned cookbook. But when one of the club's patrons is found dead, she'll have to cook up a scheme to find the killer. As the number of suspects rises like crabs in a bucket, it's out of the pan and into the fire for Val. If she can't find the culprit soon, she might as well be chum in the water. . .

[GA Russell]

The Hot Kid - Elmore Leonard - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/The-Hot-Kid-El...dp/B000FCK51C/

*****

A Dram of Poison - Charlotte Armstrong - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00729PUDO

(1956 Edgar Award, Best Novel)

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by sufue

Not My Blood is the tenth in the excellent (IMO) Joe Sandilands series by Barbara Cleverly. It has recently dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Not-Blood-Sand...dp/B007DY5SX0/

While I was looking at Cleverly's books, I also noticed that two other titles in the Sandilands series are only $2.99, which is a very reasonable price for backlist titles IMO. They appear to be long-term priced at $2.99, not any special sale, but since I'm listing Not My Blood, I thought I'd mention these two also.

The Palace Tiger is the fourth in the series.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Palace-Tiger-J...dp/B00OGUX00M/

The Bee's Kiss is the fifth in the series.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Bees-Kiss-Joe-...dp/B00OGUX5MU/

This is a favorite series of my sister. She gave me Tug of War a few years ago for Christmas. Not too bad, but strictly chick lit - I won't be reading another. You ladies, though, might enjoy this series as much as my sister does.

[GtrsRGr8]

The Term Sheet: A Startup Thriller Novel, by Lucas Carlson is currently available free from our friends at NoiseTrade. The Kindle mobi of it at Amazon is currently $4.99.

It's available in all three of the most popular flavors: PDF, ePub, and mobi.

Author Lucas Carlson is a highly-rated author. Interestingly, he has written 3 or 4 non-fiction technology books. I'm sure that because of his technology background he can bring a greater feel of reality to a techno fiction work such as this. He also has written a couple of books on startup companies, a theme that is prominent in The Term Sheet.

The book is rated 4.4 stars, from 93 reviews, at Amazon.

While I say that it's "free," those who have downloaded before from NoiseTrade recognize that it's really a pay-if-you-want-to kind of deal. They ask for a tip, but you can download the book without leaving one.

The book description at NoiseTrade is long. But here's goes . . . .
Startup Thriller Author of the popular Uncommon Stock trilogy

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THE FATE OF THE COUNTRY DEPENDS ON THE DECISIONS OF ONE AMBITIOUS ENTREPRENEUR.

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David Alexander always dreamt of starting his own company. But in the exciting world of tech startups, where venture capital rules and billion-dollar businesses are the holy grail, things can and do collapse — in the blink of an eye...

David’s thrown into this world and his adventures spiral him into a dark hole of terrorist plots, government espionage and classified information. It’s not as elegant a universe as he had first thought.

One wrong decision could put the country in jeopardy, collapse David’s company, or even cost him his life.

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THE TERM SHEET is a fast-paced technothriller about entrepreneurship, startups, encryption, and the delicate balance between national security and individual privacy. Its complex characters explore thought-provoking questions about the role of technology in an ever-changing society. Step into the high-stakes game played by today’s technology innovators, who push the envelope and risk it all. Get ready, this thrilling book gives you a taste of what startups are really like.

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David Alexander, a young programmer in Portland, Oregon, loathed his job. Computer programming had always come naturally, but being an employee never suited him. So he tried entrepreneurship instead.

After making a series of embarrassing blunders, David finally hit on a startup idea that stuck: encrypted chat. Sure there were alternatives, but as Edward Snowden has shown us, most of them (willingly or unwillingly) have backdoors for spies and bad guys.

A new approach made David’s app one of the most secure options out there, which caught the attention of many people, including Shawn Douglas from the Secret Service.

Shawn Douglas worked with eight different presidents, preventing twenty assassination attempts, forty-three terrorist plots and two bullets. When he was promoted to a desk job overseeing and organizing travel, he picked up on a cryptic email thread that hinted at a threat to the President’s life.

In a race to unravel the conspiracy, Shawn and David both have to make some difficult decisions. Will Shawn stop the terrorists in time?

Will David be able to navigate his startup out of a crisis and keep his entrepreneurial dream alive? Or will fate deal them both a crushing hand? Read the book to find out.

Well, there's more information at NoiseTrade about the book, but perhaps that is enough to let you know whether or not you might be interested in it. Here's the link to the ebook's webpage at NoiseTrade, where you can find out more information if you need to and also download the ebook if you decide to.

[Little.Egret]

The Complete Father Brown Stories (Centaur Classics) by G. K. Chesterton

[1911] The Innocence of Father Brown
[1914] The Wisdom of Father Brown
[1914] The Donnington Affair
[1926] The Incredulity of Father Brown
[1927] The Secret of Father Brown
[1935] The Scandal of Father Brown
[1936] The Mask of Midas


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Fat...dp/B01ETZN9RC/
http://www.amazon.ca/Complete-Father...dp/B01ETZN9RC/

For US try


http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Fathe...dp/B01ETZN9RC/

[Lynx-lynx]

Those interested in Felicity Young's Dr Dody McCleland series may want to venture to Kobo India where the latest in the series (April release), is selling for RS 186.34. (Around $2-3 or so depending on where you live)
A Donation of Murder
blurb

Spoiler:

Forensic doctor Dody McCleland is horrified when the seemingly dead body of a well-dressed woman she has just sliced with her scalpel bolts upright with a howl. Dody has heard of bodies frozen into a false death before but never come face to face with the phenomenon.

She feels a terrible debt - and a strange connection - to this woman, discovered incongruously near the notorious Anchor and Whistle public house. Yet Dody is puzzled: how did a woman of such means and intelligence come to be left for dead in the icy cold of this unsavoury district?

Meanwhile, Chief Inspector Pike has a gang of jewel thieves with a trail of murder behind them bailed up in a burning building. When one of the gang escapes, and the remainder are found assassinated at close range, it is clear the modus operandi of the chief suspect has brutally shifted.

Then Pike discovers both that the king has an interest in the gang's stolen jewels and that his superior is suspected of corruption. Threats to his career and his relationship with Dody further intensify an already delicate situation.

Join Dody and Pike as they work to find out who is behind the carnage, discover who Dody's new friend really is, and if there's any hope of them ever sharing a future together.

I've now read the whole series (to date) and thoroughly recommend them.

[sufue]

Empty Nest appears to be the second in the Birds of a Feather mystery series by Marty Wingate. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Nest-Bi...dp/B00UEL0JQU/

Spoiler:

If you love M. C. Beaton or Susan Wittig Albert, don’t miss the charming Birds of a Feather series from bestselling author Marty Wingate! In Empty Nest, Julia Lanchester’s life is interrupted by a murder most foul—and a killer who’s watching her like a hawk.

Manager of a tourist center in a quaint British village, Julia Lanchester finds herself with more ideas than time. Her boss is the Earl Fotheringill himself, but apart from him, she doesn’t mix well with the aristocracy. Unfortunately, toxic mold forces her from her cottage and into one of the earl’s countless spare rooms at the Hall. She tries to get a handle on her overload of work, while she finds herself arguing with dinner guests, chaffing at the sudden interest the earl’s son has in running the estate, and missing her new beau, Michael Sedgwick.

Her life goes from bad to sinister when Julia discovers poisoned sparrowhawks on the expansive estate grounds. And soon after, she finds one of the Hall’s visitors murdered—felled by the same poison. While simultaneously both spooked and angry, she still can’t keep herself from snooping, and dragging Michael along into her investigation. But will she find the culprit before her own wings are clipped?

[orangekiwi]

Open Road Publishing has a number of deals in honour of last week's Edgar Awards ceremony by previous winners which are available for one day only in the US. Available at most retailers. Be quick because I think this may have been for yesterday but prices as of now are still discounted

The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathon King $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Edge-Mid.../dp/B00BBPVXEU

Slow Motion Riot by Peter Blauner $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Motion-R.../dp/B004S8ESIA

The Anderson Tapes by Lawrence Sanders $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Anderson-Tape.../dp/B00B4V7MWI

The Fugitive by Robert L. Fish $2.99
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-fugitive-31

The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak $1.99
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-bait-1

[mortvillebk]

It looks like Stuart Palmer's Murder on Wheels (1930s cozy mystery) is $1.99 today:

https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Wheels.../dp/B00CHW662A

[GA Russell]

The Hot Rock - Donald E. Westlake - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Rock-Dort.../dp/B005UK7TVS

[GA Russell]

In Their Footsteps - Tess Gerritsen - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Their-Footste.../dp/B00NL10APA

*****

I thought I would put this here for all the Nero Wolfe fans!

Easy Orchid Gardening - free
https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Orchid-G.../dp/B008XOEJ8O

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Hunt at the Well of Eternity by James Reasoner


UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hunt-Well-E...05485&sr=1-468

US
https://www.amazon.com/Hunt-Well-Ete...05485&sr=1-468

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Hunt-Well-...05485&sr=1-468