FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2015

[sufue]

Holy Moly is the 6th in the Blanco County series by Ben Rehder. It's on US Kindle Countdown for about 4 1/4 more days, at $0.99 before going up to $4.99.

link: http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Moly-Blan...dp/B00CENWPE0/

Spoiler:

"This guy is the funniest, freshest voice in Texas mystery writing today. His work stands out like a DayGlo parka in deer season."
—Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lightning Thief

Holy Moly: When televangelist Peter Boothe decides to build a megachurch on the banks of the Pedernales River, he thinks his biggest problem will be a few unhappy neighbors. However, when backhoe operator Hollis Farley unearths a rare fossil on the construction site---a discovery that could lead to plenty of embarrassing Darwinian publicity---the cover-up begins. Soon, Farley is dead, shot in the back with an arrow, and Game Warden John Marlin is asked to help with the case. What he and the local deputies find is a suspect list of biblical proportions: Could it have been the bitter geology professor? The private fossil collector with a somewhat unusual fetish? The minister’s wife who takes the Commandments rather lightly? Or the geriatric environmentalist with a mean right hook? Nothing is sacred in Rehder’s most laughable satire yet, a twisted tale of greed, corruption, infidelity, and, yes, paleontology.

REVIEWS FOR HOLY MOLY:

“Rich with clever prose, oddball characters and laugh-aloud plot twists. The author, an Edgar Award finalist, is a sharp stylist with an engaging and frequently irreverent sense of humor.”
— Dallas Morning News

“For those suffering Carl Hiaasen withdrawals, Holy Moly might be the perfect poolside fix come summer.”
— Texas Monthly

“A tale of lust, power and greed that unravels at breakneck speed…Rehder’s characters are always memorable, as are his satirical plots. His style is entertaining and fun to read.”
— San Antonio Express-News

“Edgar-finalist Rehder’s sixth Blanco County (Tex.) mystery may be the best to date in this rollicking crime series. Rehder’s satirical take on greed, faith and foolishness moves at a swift clip, punctuated with dizzy twists and even bittersweet turns, like a good toe-tapping, country and western tune.”
— Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“Ben Rehder in his hilarious Holy Moly places televangelists and the creationism vs. evolution debate under the microsope. [He] takes readers on an adventure into the multimillion-dollar realm of the televangelist on whose land the fossil was found, life in small-town Texas, and the inner workings of police investigation in the latest entry in this Edgar Award-nominated series. Combining sophisticated prose with down-home Texas crime, he leaves no part of Texas life untouched.”
— Library Journal

It's also probably worth noting that the first book in the series, Buck Fever, is still free, so you can try it out to see if you like the series. It was a finalist for a bunch of awards.

link: http://www.amazon.com/Buck-Fever-Bla...dp/B005MAA8LY/

Spoiler:

"Thanks to Ben Rehder, Texas now has its own Hiaasen. Don't miss it."
—Tim Dorsey, author of the Serge Storms mysteries.

Buck Fever: It's the week before deer hunting season, as close to a statewide holiday as you get in Texas, and the locals are getting restless. Game Warden John Marlin has his hands full with poaching complaints coming in faster than he can write out-of-season tickets. Then a call of a different sort comes in. A man dressed up in some sort of deer costume has been shot at the Circle S ranch, and witnesses are reporting a massive wild-eyed buck prancing about the pasture in a lovesick frenzy. Marlin's seen a lot in his years, but this is wilder than he could have imagined: the man in the deer suit is a good friend, and the whacked-out whitetail isn't exactly a stranger either. It's the beginning of a mad, frantic weekend in Blanco County, one that will see a few more men shot, an invasion by Colombians with more than hunting on their minds, and damn near the end of Marlin's life. Ben Rehder serves it all up with a huge helping of humor in this debut comic mystery that will firmly establish him as the funniest crime writer in Texas.

REVIEWS FOR BUCK FEVER:

“This debut novel is a complete success, tearing out of Texas chock-full of characters so nutty and events so strange it seems as if they must be real. The writing here is confident and vigorous; the tone is quintessentially Texan and relentlessly wry. There’s sure to be a long career for this happy, wacky series.”
—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“This is a wild and crazy first novel, crowded with weird people, unusual relationships (both animal and human), and frequent humor that will appeal to fans of Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey, and other comic mystery writers. Strongly recommended for most collections.”
—Library Journal (Starred Review)

“It’s been our pleasure to be among the first reviewers to take notice of several writers who eventually became best sellers, including Nevada Barr, Lee Child and Randy Wayne White. Ben Rehder has what it takes to join that group. Imagine Carl Hiaasen with a Texas accent…”
—Denver Post

“Briskly paced, amusing, spiced with deftly drawn good-old-boy portraits: an altogether promising debut.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“…side-splitting…akin to the Tom Robbins style of humor writing.”
—ESPN Outdoors

“Austinite Ben Rehder’s debut novel is the summer’s best find. With a nod and a wink to Carl Hiaasen, Rehder comes out swinging with a sardonic Tex-centric look at trophy deer hunters, beer-guzzling poachers, and Game Warden John Marlin—the man charged with keeping them all in line. Buck Fever is too fun to be legal.”
—Texas Monthly

[Fbone]

Poor, Poor Ophelia (Al Krug and Casey Kellogg #1) by Carolyn Weston is FREE today. Random House 1972. GR 3.74

THE BLOCKBUSTER THRILLER THAT BECAME THE HIT TV SERIES
"THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO"

It’s the turbulent 1970s, a time of social upheaval. The generation gap has never seemed so wide and perilous, especially for veteran Santa Monica homicide detective Al Krug and his new partner, university-educated ex-surfer Casey Kellog, the youngest detective on the force. A woman’s corpse is found floating in the bay with a law firm’s business card, sealed in plastic, strung around her neck. Krug and Kellog have to solve the bizarre and gruesome murder… if they don’t kill each other first.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...al-text&sr=1-1

[sufue]

I'm not sure if these are really sale prices or not, but...

Ostara Publishing has e-books of a few authors I like (Janet Neel, some Edward Marston, David Serafin), but their e-books tend to be really expensive, way too expensive for me to replace backlist titles I already own in DTB.

However, just today I randomly checked Ostara, instead of the specific authors/titles I usually look for, and found that a few of their titles are fairly inexpensive - one on Amazon US, and several on Amazon UK. These may be sale prices, or maybe the long-term prices...no idea...

But in any case, here are some inexpensive backlist titles:

The one on Amazon US:

Mr. Campion's Farthing is one of the Campion books penned (or completed) by Margery Allingham's husband, Philip Youngman-Carter, after her death. It's at $1.88 at Amazon US right now, no idea for how long.

link: http://www.amazon.com/Campions-Farth...dp/B00FO75W0C/

Spoiler:

‘If a man is likely to be murdered you can’t just stand by and do nothing. Or can you?’

Inglewood Turrets, an expensive anachronism in the leafy outskirts of North London is a cross between St Pancreas Station and Holloway Gaol, and the house where the formidable Miss Charlotte Cambric recreates Victorian elegance for foreign culture-vultures.
Vassily Kopeck, the half-Russian, half-Polish physicist and an ‘attaché of sorts’, disappears as effectively as a cat who turns a corner in a London fog after a visit to The Turrets – and thereby becomes a much-wanted man. Then Felix Perdreau, the flamboyant rare book dealer and friend of Kopek, who knows more than he is letting on, also goes missing…
L.C. Corkran, of Her Majesty’s security service, is convinced that something awful is about to happen there.
Others showing an unnatural interest in the goings-on at The Turrets include Moryak, the Russian ‘diplomat’ hunting the missing scientist; a ruthless property developer and his even more ruthless acolyte, a very dodgy private investigator with a penchant for stamp-collecting, and Rupert (whose surname just happens to be Campion) and Perdita, two innocent but resourceful young people hired to act out harmless Victorian charades in a far from harmless situation.
Fortunately, Albert Campion – that self-effacing professional adventurer who simply cannot resist a mystery – is also on hand.

Amazon UK has 11 Ostara titles for less then £3.00. I don't have time to do them all in detail, but here's a price-sorted search link, and a list of the titles:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_pg_...qid=1443999609

• Patterns in the Dust by Lesley Grant-Adamson
• Deadly Admirer by Christine Green
• Tightrope by Antony Melville-Ross
• Frame Grabber by Denise Danks
• The Terminators by Berkely Mather
• Saturday of Glory by David Serafin
• Undertow by Desmond Cory
• The Pizza House Crash by Denise Danks
• Falconer and the Rain of Blood by Ian Morson
• Archdeacons Afloat by C A Alington
• The Legend of Hereward by Mike Ripley (more a historical novel, perhaps, than a mystery, but WTH...)

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Vengeance is Mine by Sven Andersson

'The bodies of two Syrian immigrants lay on Loki’s Leap, an infamous rock face found on the outskirts of a small Swedish town. Their skulls are smashed in. One of the bodies is clutching a camera and the other body is dressed head to toe in running gear. When the brilliant DI Johanna Apelgren arrives on the scene, she is determined to uncover the truth behind this gruesome murder that appears to be racially motivated. With the Sons of Odin in town, a violent law-hopping motor cycle gang, known for their hostility to immigrants, Apelgren knew trouble was lurking on the horizon.
But why would the Sons of Odin murder two innocent immigrants just before the Midsummer Festival? Apelgren is quick off the mark and much to the horror of her senior, Liedholm, attempts to ruffle the feathers of politician Stefan Mattson. His outwardly anti-immigrant stance made him a Swedish celebrity in the recent election. Could the leader of the The Nordic Democrats be guilty for inspiring hate crimes among his people? What is he hiding?
Along with her partner, DS Andreas Stenman, Apelgren goes to Mariehem to break the news to the two victims’ families. But the fathers react strangely to the news, racially abusing each other instead of expressing grief. The Farouq’s are Sunni Muslims and the Olikara’s are Christian Syrians; the two men are adamant that their sons did not know each other and are disgusted at the thought. Later, whilst attempting to question the Aryan outlaws, Apelgren receives a shocking call. Kurt Nilsson, a member of the notorious gang, has confessed to the double murder. Despite her investigation squad’s eagerness to swallow Nilsson’s confession, Apelgren remains suspicious.
Then, in a cruel twist of fate, shocking forensic evidence comes back.
Accessed deleted files from Iskhaq’s camera prove that him and Omar were better acquainted than their parents let on. Why did the family lie? And why has there been an enormous payment made between The Nordic Democrats and the Sons of Odin - are they working together? Could the brutal murders be a calculated distraction to prevent the police from seeing the bigger picture? With the Midsummer Festival looming, a bitter partner and a bully for a superior, DI Apelgren races against the clock to solve the crime.'

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vengeance-Mi...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Vengeance-Mine...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Vengeance-M...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Vengeance-Mine-...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK -Payback by Alex Zenon


'Larnaca, Cyprus.

Tensions have reached boiling point in the normally peaceful coastal city. The Eurogroup bailout, and subsequent collapse of the Omega Bank, resulted in over half the population waking up to find their entire life savings had disappeared over night – university funds, pension pots, even the charity account of a young girl with a rare genetic disease. When high-profile city banker, Wolfgang Fleischer, is kidnapped in the dead of night – a severed finger the only evidence found at the scene – conspiracy theories are all anyone can talk about. The Cypriots, the Russians, the CIA – they all want payback for their stolen millions. Spurred on by the prospect of a €1 million reward, Johnny Gregoriou starts asking his own questions. With the help of his childhood friend, Phats, Johnny deepens his investigations but it’s not long before he realises that this is far more than a simple case of kidnap and ransom. His suspicions are confirmed when he finds himself the recipient of an ancient Cypriot death threat and things go from bad to worse when Johnny’s teenage daughter, Georgia, is taken hostage. Can Johnny track down the kidnappers and claim the reward? Or will the very thing he hopes will unite his family, destroy it beyond repair? '

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Payback-Alex...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Payback-Alex-Z...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Payback-Ale...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Payback-Alex-Ze...ndeavour+press

[Wearever]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free today on Amazon UK -Payback by Alex Zenon


'Larnaca, Cyprus.

Tensions have reached boiling point in the normally peaceful coastal city. The Eurogroup bailout, and subsequent collapse of the Omega Bank, resulted in over half the population waking up to find their entire life savings had disappeared over night – university funds, pension pots, even the charity account of a young girl with a rare genetic disease. When high-profile city banker, Wolfgang Fleischer, is kidnapped in the dead of night – a severed finger the only evidence found at the scene – conspiracy theories are all anyone can talk about. The Cypriots, the Russians, the CIA – they all want payback for their stolen millions. Spurred on by the prospect of a €1 million reward, Johnny Gregoriou starts asking his own questions. With the help of his childhood friend, Phats, Johnny deepens his investigations but it’s not long before he realises that this is far more than a simple case of kidnap and ransom. His suspicions are confirmed when he finds himself the recipient of an ancient Cypriot death threat and things go from bad to worse when Johnny’s teenage daughter, Georgia, is taken hostage. Can Johnny track down the kidnappers and claim the reward? Or will the very thing he hopes will unite his family, destroy it beyond repair? '

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Payback-Alex...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Payback-Alex-Z...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Payback-Ale...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Payback-Alex-Ze...ndeavour+press

Thanks Mort !

[Wearever]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free today on Amazon UK - Vengeance is Mine by Sven Andersson

'The bodies of two Syrian immigrants lay on Loki’s Leap, an infamous rock face found on the outskirts of a small Swedish town. Their skulls are smashed in. One of the bodies is clutching a camera and the other body is dressed head to toe in running gear. When the brilliant DI Johanna Apelgren arrives on the scene, she is determined to uncover the truth behind this gruesome murder that appears to be racially motivated. With the Sons of Odin in town, a violent law-hopping motor cycle gang, known for their hostility to immigrants, Apelgren knew trouble was lurking on the horizon.
But why would the Sons of Odin murder two innocent immigrants just before the Midsummer Festival? Apelgren is quick off the mark and much to the horror of her senior, Liedholm, attempts to ruffle the feathers of politician Stefan Mattson. His outwardly anti-immigrant stance made him a Swedish celebrity in the recent election. Could the leader of the The Nordic Democrats be guilty for inspiring hate crimes among his people? What is he hiding?
Along with her partner, DS Andreas Stenman, Apelgren goes to Mariehem to break the news to the two victims’ families. But the fathers react strangely to the news, racially abusing each other instead of expressing grief. The Farouq’s are Sunni Muslims and the Olikara’s are Christian Syrians; the two men are adamant that their sons did not know each other and are disgusted at the thought. Later, whilst attempting to question the Aryan outlaws, Apelgren receives a shocking call. Kurt Nilsson, a member of the notorious gang, has confessed to the double murder. Despite her investigation squad’s eagerness to swallow Nilsson’s confession, Apelgren remains suspicious.
Then, in a cruel twist of fate, shocking forensic evidence comes back.
Accessed deleted files from Iskhaq’s camera prove that him and Omar were better acquainted than their parents let on. Why did the family lie? And why has there been an enormous payment made between The Nordic Democrats and the Sons of Odin - are they working together? Could the brutal murders be a calculated distraction to prevent the police from seeing the bigger picture? With the Midsummer Festival looming, a bitter partner and a bully for a superior, DI Apelgren races against the clock to solve the crime.'

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vengeance-Mi...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Vengeance-Mine...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Vengeance-M...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Vengeance-Mine-...ndeavour+press

Thanks Again ! Mort

[GA Russell]

Alias the Lone Wolf - free
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K5EBEHE

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - The Pirate Ship by Peter Tonkin

'1997. A stormy dawn in the South China Sea. Cargo vessel, Sulu Queen, drifts aimlessly. She is only days out of Singapore, but a boarding party finds her full of corpses — shot, stabbed, bludgeoned to death — with only one wild-eyed survivor... Injured in the confusion, and now suffering from total amnesia, he is identified as Captain Richard Mariner of the Heritage Mariner shipping company which owns the vessel. He is immediately charged with the mass murder of thirty-nine fellow crew members. It falls to Mariner’s wife and business partner, Robin, to untangle this nightmarish web of brutality. In order to decipher the fateful voyage of the Sulu Queen before Hong Kong reverts to Chinese rule, Robin is forced to join the sister ship, Seram Queen. Little does she know that the horrific tragedy is likely to be repeated, and that she’s now in a chilling race against time to save her husband’s life — and her own.'

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pirate-Ship-...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Ship-Pe...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Pirate-Ship...ndeavour+press


Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Pirate-Ship-Pet...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Originally Posted by Wearever

Thanks Again ! Mort

You are welcome and thanks for the Karma!

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Death of a Raven by Margaret Duffy

'At a luxurious vacation house on the Canadian coast, a curious house party has gathered. Its object is not sociability but security. The safety of the party is of utmost importance as the attendees are English engineers whose mission it is to design the missile controls for Canada’s revitalized navy.
But a mysterious death has already taken place. Could it be suspicious? Who would commit a murder at a party? The amiable MI5 agents, Patrick and Ingrid, who are also husband and wife, are ordered to join the engineers. A gripping game of high-stakes charades is played and all guests take part, whether willing or not. But when an “accidental” car crash is followed by an “accidental” poisoning, Patrick and Ingrid know a traitor is present. Who has crashed the festivities? Will the couple figure out the mystery before the death count rises uncontrollably?'

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Raven-...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Raven-Ma...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Death-Raven...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Death-Raven-Mar...ndeavour+press

[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free megathread for this Tuesday's Wildside Press freebie:

The Second Golden Age of Crime & Mystery Megapack™ featuring vintage stories by the late Ruth Chessman, some of which were originally published in Manhunt and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Also, the Humble Comics Bundle Forbidden Comics supporting Banned Books Week contains among other things, Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell's excellent graphic novel rendition of the hunt for Jack the Ripper (worth it for the epilogue comic alone, which gathers up and examines the plausibility of various hypotheses over the decades), and a reprint + commentary on one of the lurid crime comics that led to the 1950s kerfuffle about content and censorship which eventually resulted in the now-defunct Comics Code Authority.

[bfisher]

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard is $CDN 1.99 today at Amazon Canada
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B000FC11YC

Rum Punch, Mr.Paradise, The Hot Kid, and Up In Honey's Room are also on sale.

[koland]

Originally Posted by bfisher

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard is $CDN 1.99 today at Amazon Canada
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B000FC11YC

Rum Punch, Mr.Paradise, The Hot Kid, and Up In Honey's Room are also on sale.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000677541

[Mort1997]

Originally Posted by Fbone

A Fatal Twist of Lemon: A Wisteria Tearoom Mystery (Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries #1) by Patrice Greenwood is FREE today. BVC 2012. GR 3.88

http://smile.amazon.com/Fatal-Twist-...8Wisteria+Tear

Now free in the UK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fatal-Twist-...rice+greenwood