FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - August 2014

[Hampshire Nanny]

Originally Posted by crich70

Victorian Detectives Megapack - The Moonstone, Bleak House, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard and More (26 books total, 190 illustrations, essays, audio links) [Kindle Edition]
Click Currently free but I don't know how long that will last. 4023 pages according to Amazon.

Female Sleuths Megapack: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Loveday Brooke and Amelia Butterworth (21 novellas, original illustrations, author bios. Fully annotated enhanced e-book) Click Just 99 cents at Amazon.

I think that many of those books are in the MobileRead library.

[Synamon]

I made a separate thread, but I'll crosspost here as well: lots of Agatha Christie mystery novels available from HarperCollins at Kobo Canada for $0.99. For more info please go to the linked thread.

[Lynx-lynx]

Free on Amazon Aus:

Spies of Jerusalem
Colin Smith

Palestine, 1917.

A land of conflict. And a land of spies.

As World War One rages on the killing fields of Flanders, another battle is playing out in the Holy Land.

British forces invade a stronghold of the Ottoman Empire, fighting German officers, Arab conscripts and Turkish troops.

But as the British armies advance, the Germans suspect they have a traitor within their ranks.

An agent - code-named Daniel - is transmitting messages to the British from the heart of the German headquarters.

If they can't stop him, the war will be lost.

But as the Germans dig deeper, they discover an espionage ring called Nili
made up of Zionist Jews supporting the British.

They begin close in on the ring.

But will they ever unearth the true identity of Daniel?

And what is the true purpose of the organisation known as Nili?

In this gripping novel, Colin Smith interweaves the stories of British Tommies, German officers and Jewish nationals.

In a tale of intrigue and espionage the hunt for Daniel turns into a race against time, as the British prepare to meet the Austrian troops on the brutal battlefield at Huj.

'Spies of Jerusalem' brilliantly blends fact with fiction in a novel that will appeal to fans of Alan Furst and and John Le Carre.

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spies-Jerusa...8578092&sr=1-2

US: http://www.amazon.com/Spies-Jerusale...ds=colin+smith

CA: http://www.amazon.ca/Spies-Jerusalem...ds=colin+smith

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It's another Endeavour Press book

[peachiekene]

Sale/Bargain
$1.99
Veronica Mars: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham

From Rob Thomas, the creator of the television series and movie phenomenon Veronica Mars, comes the first book in a thrilling mystery series that picks up where the feature film left off.

Ten years after graduating from high school in Neptune, California, Veronica Mars is back in the land of sun, sand, crime, and corruption. She’s traded in her law degree for her old private investigating license, struggling to keep Mars Investigations afloat on the scant cash earned by catching cheating spouses until she can score her first big case.

Now it’s spring break, and college students descend on Neptune, transforming the beaches and boardwalks into a frenzied, week-long rave. When a girl disappears from a party, Veronica is called in to investigate. But this is no simple missing person’s case; the house the girl vanished from belongs to a man with serious criminal ties, and soon Veronica is plunged into a dangerous underworld of drugs and organized crime. And when a major break in the investigation has a shocking connection to Veronica’s past, the case hits closer to home than she ever imagined.

In Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas has created a groundbreaking female detective who’s part Phillip Marlowe, part Nancy Drew, and all snark. With its sharp plot and clever twists, The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line will keep you guessing until the very last page.

AmazonUS
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iTunes

(So glad I had this in my Luzme watchlist and a gift card handy!)

[sufue]

The Ten Commandments, which is part of the DCI Webb mystery series by Anthea Fraser, is a US Kindle countdown deal ($0.99 instead of $3.99) for approximately the next 5 1/2 days. It's about 10 am US Pacific time on August 22 right now.

This is another Endeavour Press book. They seem to be doing a lot of the discounted books on Amazon US, at least.

Link is here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L2O0W88

Blurb is here:

Spoiler:

The body of an unknown man is found in a pub car park on a warm summer’s evening.

He has been brutally bludgeoned to death, and there are no witnesses.

When DCI Webb is called to the case, he has a nasty sense that he’s been here before.

Six years previously, Trevor Philpott’s body was found in identical circumstances.

But the case was never closed, and the killer is still at large.

As Webb delves back into the details of the previous case he uncovers more unsolved mysteries.

Are the cases connected?

Has the same killer been responsible for more murders over the years?

DCI Webb must return to the past, if he has any hope of stopping more killings in the future…

‘The Ten Commandments’ is a gripping crime novel featuring Anthea Fraser's popular detective David Webb.

Praise for Anthea Fraser:

“A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read" - Booklist

“Ms Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall" - Sunday Times

'A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story' - Birmingham Post

'Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings' - Yorkshire Post

ANTHEA FRASER has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her other books include ‘The Seven Stars’ and ‘One is One and All Alone’.

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

[sufue]

Julie Smith's Jazz Funeral is free today at Amazon US. This is in the Skip Langdon series. Ms. Smith seems to cycle most or all of her books through being free, and/or $0.99, and this one has been free before. They seem to only stay free for a day, though, so if you've missed it and want it, grab it now...

Link is here: http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Funeral-A...dp/B00817OUCS/

Blurb

Spoiler:

The THIRD book in the Edgar Award-winning Skip Langdon mystery series by Julie Smith.

“A genuinely moving mystery ... It's always a pleasure to spend time with Skip, a no-nonsense, level-headed heroine in a wild and reckless city." –The Baltimore Sun

"A super protagonist, well-defined characters, and musical highlights make this essential." -Library Journal

EVERYBODY LOVED EASYGOING HAM BROCATO, PRODUCER OF THE FAMED NEW ORLEANS JAZZFEST. SO HOW DID HE END UP STABBED TO DEATH ON HIS KITCHEN FLOOR?

New Orleans Homicide Detective Skip Langdon just happens to be on hand when Ham’s body is discovered in the middle of his own party the evening before the Fest. To complicate the already murky case, the victim's sixteen-year-old blues musician sister has disappeared, and Skip suspects that if the young woman isn't the murderer, she's in mortal danger from the person who is. So Task One is finding Melody, ambitious, unhappy at home, and determined to break from her family.

As she probes the victim's tangled relationships, Skip finds a Southern family to rival any in Tennessee Williams, including Ham's live-in lover, feisty and swiftly rising star Ti-Belle Thiebaud; his father George, enmeshed with family members in a bitter disagreement over the family's lucrative Po' Boy chain; and Patty, his distraught stepmother.

In this tale of southern kinships gone awry, she's assisted by her long-distance love, Steve Steinman, and her gay landlord, Jimmy Dee. Meanwhile, Melody's dangerous yet exhilarating journey tugs at the heart and raises the pulse rate.

“Smith’s Big Easy setting is a lively blend of big city and gossipy small town.” –Publishers Weekly

Fans of Laura Lippman, Ace Atkins, James Lee Burke, and the HBO series TREME will adore this satisfying and complex cop whodunit. And fans of YA fiction will fall in love with Melody!

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - Cold Black by Alex Shaw


In Britain, MI6 operative Aidan Snow witnesses a ruthless murder.
Paddy Fox, a jaded ex-SAS soldier, foils the kidnap of a member of the Saudi Royal Family.
Russia is making offers - and demands - to Ukraine that cannot be refused.
In Saudi Arabia an al-Qaeda terror cell prepares for a mission.
How are all these events connected? And what is Cold Black?
Aidan Snow must fit the pieces of the puzzle together before it's too late...

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cold-Black-A...ndeavour+press


US
http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Black-Ale...ndeavour+press


Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Cold-Black-...ndeavour+press


Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Cold-Black-Alex...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK -Death in Room Five (A Chief Inspector Littlejohn Mystery) by George Bellairs


'When a group from the small English town of Bolchester make an excursion to Cannes, little do they expect it to end so dramatically – with the disastrous murder of one of their party, the domineering Alderman William Dawson.
Suddenly the holidaymakers find themselves murder suspects.
But, with so many grudges borne against Dawson, it becomes impossible to work out who might have been responsible for his death.
Was the fact that he had been a traitor in the maquis - the French resistance - during the war a factor?
And was his death connected to the subsequent killing of the crooked barkeeper Sammy?
When Scotland Yard call in Chief Inspector Littlejohn in to investigate, rudely interrupting his holiday in the Riviera, he comes up against a trying, taxing and peculiar case. '


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

US
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Chief-In...ndeavour+press

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


Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Death-Chief-Ins...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK -His Last Confession by Mel Hodgekinson

'February 1870.
Inspector Drewes of the Dawfield police force is spending an uninteresting evening at his desk.
Uninteresting, that is, until he gets a visit from his former constable, Withers, who has just heard an intriguing deathbed confession given by a notorious thief.
The confession sparks a huge investigation and Inspector Drewes finds himself at the helm, capably assisted by Withers, who proves a master of disguise.
They discover that three possible murders and a spate of thefts have gone unsolved by the police. They need to find the perpetrator - and fast.
Things only get more difficult for Drewes when it turns our that the thief has targeted his own family: an heirloom necklace passed down from his mother has gone missing.
Drewes’ investigations take him from the high-society parties of the era to the servants’ quarters of the houses they are held in, as he leaves no stone unturned – and no method of investigation untried – in his quest to solve this most complex and fascinating of cases… '


UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/His-Last-Con...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/His-Last-Confe...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/His-Last-Co...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/His-Last-Confes...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - Bleeders by Anthony Bruno

'FBI profiler Trisha McCleery has been on a twenty-year personal search for the person who brutally murdered her mother. At the same time serial killer Gene Lassiter has been on an obsessive twenty-year search for the daughter of his first kill. If she finds him, justice can at last be served. If he finds her, one man’s reign of terror can continue unabated. In a stunning life-or-death final act, the hunter and the hunted go head-to-head, with a shocking ending that bleeds justice dry. '


UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bleeders-Ant...058216&sr=1-55


US
http://www.amazon.com/Bleeders-Antho...058216&sr=1-55

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Bleeders-An...058216&sr=1-55

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Bleeders-Anthon...058216&sr=1-55

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK -All The Young Warriors (Mustafa and Adem 1) by Anthony Neil Smith

From a double cop-killing on the frozen streets of Minnesota to the burning sands of Mogadishu, Somali pirates and a brutal civil war, All The Young Warriors is an epic thriller spanning continents and cultures. Murder, warfare, piracy, love, betrayal and revenge – this is a white-knuckle ride for fans of James Lee Burke (the Dave Robicheaux series) and Michael Connelly (the Harry Bosch series).

Winner of the 2012 Spinetingler Award for Best Novel: Rising Star

When two of the Twin Cities' “Lost Boys” — young Somali men drafted to fight for terrorists back in the homeland — kill a pair of cops on his home turf, detective Ray Bleeker is left devastated. One of the dead cops was his girlfriend. The investigation grinds to a halt when he discovers that the young murderers have fled to Somalia to fight in the rebel army. He's at his wits' end until the father of one of the boys, an ex-gang leader called Mustafa, comes looking for answers. Bleeker and Mustafa form an uneasy alliance, teaming up to help bring the boys back home. But little do they know what Somalia has in store for them.



UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Young-Wa...058466&sr=1-90

US
http://www.amazon.com/All-Young-Warr...058466&sr=1-90

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/All-Young-W...058466&sr=1-90

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/All-Young-Warri...058466&sr=1-90

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK -Deadly Double: A Jess Kimball Thriller AND A Laura Cardinal Thriller (Mystery Thriller Double Feature) by Diane Capri and J. Carson Black

Spoiler:

'FATAL DISTRACTION introduces relentless victims’ rights advocate Jess Kimball. She and Jack Reacher both deliver justice when the legal system fails. Reacher waits until trouble finds him and then he does whatever it takes. But Jess pursues legal justice and draws lines she will not cross. How can she win against killers who refuse to follow the rules?

Three years ago, beloved Florida Governor Helen Sullivan’s world shattered when her only son died in a senseless car crash, killing his best friend, too. Helen quickly discovered Eric’s crash was no accident and lured the killer to her son’s funeral to be caught.

When the shooting ceased in the small country church, Helen believed her nightmare was over. Instead, she’d unwittingly escalated her duel with a cunning and patient assassin.

Now, investigative journalist Jess Kimball is driven to find the horrifying truth. Is the Central Florida Child Killer guilty? Or is the real killer still out there?

Helen and Jess together face the determined killer in a pitched battle of wit and nerve. Who will survive?

DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN features Laura Cardinal: Packs a SIG Sauer P226 9mm. Investigates homicides in small towns that have limited resources. Brings justice to murder victims--and to their killers. Laura’s job description: Criminal Investigator with the Arizona Department of Public Safety. But maybe it should just say “Troubleshooter.”

Used to be kids played outdoors until time for dinner, now social media’s the new game in town. These days, they play on their smartphones. But with more freedom comes greater danger. Mobile devices are a conduit into a child’s life, not just for friends but for those who intend harm. This is the message of J. Carson Black’s Daphne du Maurier Award-nominated thriller, DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN.

When Laura investigates the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl found in a town’s park bandshell, she knows immediately what she’s up against: a cunning sexual predator. But why is she plagued by the abduction of a schoolmate eighteen years earlier?

In a runaway case that propels Laura from a lavish Tucson estate to the secretive heart of a northern Florida town, she must confront the ghosts of her own past. Then another child goes missing—and Laura must race the clock to find her.'

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Doubl...fined&sr=1-421

US
http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Double-...fined&sr=1-421


Au
Not free

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Deadly-Double-K...fined&sr=1-421

[HarryT]

Thanks, Mort. Looks like some good stuff there!

[BelleZora]

Free today at Amazon: Island of Bones (Louis Kincaid #5) by P.J. Parrish. First published by Pinnacle in 2004. Goodreads

AU: http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00EV43UGC

CA: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00EV43UGC

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EV43UGC

US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EV43UGC

[KentE]

[QUOTE=BelleZora;2906847]Free today at Amazon: Island of Bones (Louis Kincaid #5) by P.J. Parrish. First published by Pinnacle in 2004. Goodreads

Thanks, BellaZora!
I'm not familiar with Parrish, but it looks like I should get that way-- both Edgar and Shamus nominations tells me I've probably missed something.....

KentE