Free/Bargain Suspense/Mystery/Thriller May 2013

[caleb72]

The Blade by Jonas Saul is currently free at Amazon (US).

*Warning: Extreme and graphic violence

The Blade - Book Two of The Mafia Trilogy

The safe house where Darwin and Rosina live is attacked. Five FBI agents are dead. Darwin Kostas has nowhere to turn, no one he can trust. Darwin's phobias cause him great stress and now the media are calling him The Blade, even though he can't stand the sight of knives.

The FBI is hunting him. The Gambino Family, violent mobsters associated with Italy's La Cosa Nostra, want to know who he works for before they execute him. Darwin just wants to be left alone with his new wife so they can begin a domestic life, but that won't happen with so many people wanting him dead.

As evidence piles up against him, a half-blind FBI agent is on his tail, and a relentless mobster plans Darwin's violent end, the only thing he has left to lose is his life. Meanwhile, the Russian Mafia are moving into new territory in Toronto. They want to know who this Darwin guy is and why he is still breathing. When they show up to take possession of his body, Darwin has one surprise left for the mobsters before he dies.

The Blade is Book Two of The Mafia Trilogy, a set of psychological thrillers from Jonas Saul, the author of the Sarah Roberts Series.

The Kill, is Book One of The Mafia Trilogy.
The Scythe, is Book Three of The Mafia Trilogy.

Amazon (US): LINK

[caleb72]

Layer Cake by J. J. Connolly is currently $2.99 at Amazon (US).

Our narrator's too smart to tell you his name ("if I [did], you'd be as clever as me"), but he's not afraid to tell you everything else about the "layer cake"-London's intricately arranged constellation of underworld fiefdoms. He's a drug dealer who's planning to retire on his thirtieth birthday-after one last great score-to a life as "a gentleman of leisure." Only problem is his boss, the crime kingpin "don" Jimmy Price, has other plans. He can walk away from the life for good only if he can track down a runaway daughter for Jimmy's old friend.
Complicating matters are two million top-grade Ecstasy tablets that were robbed from a factory in Amsterdam by a renegade outfit in Jimmy's employ who are now looking for someone to offload the ill-gotten loot. With an angry mob of German neo-Nazis in hot pursuit, and all crosses and double-crosses leading back to Jimmy, our narrator finds he may have to negotiate a new exit strategy.
With a rich supporting cast of dozens of characters, Layer Cake is a gripping, linguistically inventive thriller, a cross between Irvine Welsh and Dennis Lehane that keeps you turning the pages until the very end.

Amazon (US): LINK

[caleb72]

James Patterson's 3rd Degree is currently $2.84 at Amazon (US).

The #1 bestselling new mystery series of the past decade comes roaring back with 3rd Degree, a shockingly suspenseful thriller featuring the Women's Murder Club.

One of James Patterson's best loved heroines is about to die. Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is immediately engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. An infant who lived in the house cannot be found - and a mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled.

Then a prominent businessman is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, with another mysterious message left behind by the killer. Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner's office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her figure out who is committing these murders-and why they are intent on killing someone every three days.

Even more terrifying, the killer has targeted one of the four friends who call themselves the Women's Murder Club.

Which one will it be?

While the investigation rages furiously, Lindsay works very closely with a federal officer assigned to the case. At the same time, she learns that one member of the Women's Murder Club is hiding a secret so dangerous and unbelievable that it could destroy them all.

Amazon (US): LINK

[NightBird]

Bully by J.F. Gonzalez for $.99.

When the murder investigation of eleven-year old Raul Valesquez is re-opened after the conviction of his alleged killer is overturned, Danny Hernandez contacts a long-lost neighborhood friend. Twenty-eight years ago, Danny and Jerry Valdez were teenagers when Raul Valesquez was killed. Raul was once the neighborhood bully. Danny is afraid of what the police might find in this new investigation. When one of the detectives on the case turns out to be an old high school friend of Danny’s, the case takes an unexpected twist into police and government corruption.

A coming-of-age thriller, Bully touches on the themes of friendship, loyalty, and revenge. Midnight Library is proud to present the Author’s Preferred and Corrected edition of what many readers have long thought to be one of J. F. Gonzalez’s strongest novels.

[Bob Butler]

When one of the detectives on the case turns out to be an old high school friend of Danny’s, the case takes an unexpected twist into police and government corruption.

I can't wait to be surprised when I read that unexpected twist

[NightBird]

All of Barry Eisler's backlist books currently republished by Thomas & Mercer are $.99 each 5/24 through 5/26.

[Synamon]

Originally Posted by NightBird

All of Barry Eisler's backlist books currently republished by Thomas & Mercer are $.99 each 5/24 through 5/26.

Some of the John Rain books have companion audiobooks at Audible for $1.99.

[victauria]

Oh, no! This is very bad because I do love me some Barry Eisler…sigh. So much for restraint. And audiobooks, too. Double sigh.

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by NightBird

All of Barry Eisler's backlist books currently republished by Thomas & Mercer are $.99 each 5/24 through 5/26.

Oh - I just finished his first John Rain book. Problematic plotting, but fun to read. Just like crazy me, I picked up all of them.

[victauria]

Originally Posted by caleb72

Oh - I just finished his first John Rain book. Problematic plotting, but fun to read. Just like crazy me, I picked up all of them.

Whew. Feeling better now. They are all speeding through the ethers to my Kindle, even if I had the p-book. Now where was that e-book addicts thread…..

[NightBird]

One of today's Kindle Daily Deals is Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke. This is #2 in his Dave Robicheaux series. They made a movie from it with Alec Baldwin and Eric Roberts.

Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana's bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life -- and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he's known since childhood; Rocque's hungry Cajun wife; and a federal agent with more guts than sense. In a backwater world where a swagger and a gun go further than the law, Robicheaux and those he loves are caught on a tide of violence far bigger than them all....

[frddgls]

Originally Posted by NightBird

One of today's Kindle Daily Deals is Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke. This is #2 in his Dave Robicheaux series. They made a movie from it with Alec Baldwin and Eric Roberts.

$.99 at Kobo too.

[sqdancer]

Originally Posted by NightBird

One of today's Kindle Daily Deals is Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke. This is #2 in his Dave Robicheaux series. They made a movie from it with Alec Baldwin and Eric Roberts.

Also $0.99 at Sony and Kobo.


ETA: I type too slowly.

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by caleb72

Oh - I just finished his first John Rain book. Problematic plotting, but fun to read. Just like crazy me, I picked up all of them.

So have I.....as if I haven't anything to read.....well.

[Apache]

Barnes and Noble has Nook Mysteries in Bundles for sale.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/?dre...book&view=grid
Apache