FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2014

[Pangolin]

I thought the Janissary Tree was really good - Goodwin loves the culture and has travelled extensively in the region and has written a good non-fiction history book on Turkey. Well structured and a likeable 'hero/sleuth'.

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Mind Game by Ben Rehder (SYKM), a short story in his Edgar-nominated humorous Blanco County Mystery series starring a Texas game warden, which was published by Adams Media's Tyrus imprint and currently has new installments out from St. Martin's Press (and which we've previously received several as rights-reverted KDP freebies from the author a couple of years ago).

Rehder also offers a non-fiction collection of his magazine articles mostly about Texas game-wardening: x-link to the Non-Fiction thread.

The sheriff of Blanco County has a problem on his hands. One local resident is making vague threats—hypothetically speaking, of course—to unsettle another local resident, who stole the first man's girlfriend. The problem escalates and violence is almost certain, until the sheriff comes up with a brilliant and ironic solution.

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon (linkage for the lot):

Murder Mystery Collection by Bruce Beckham, who says he has won The Scotsman newspaper's Orange Award for one of the included stories. Beckham also offers a freebie 1st-in-series self-pub police procedural novel involving an ad agency murder (the author is himself a copywriter, according to his bio-blurb) and a horror-ish coming of age suspense novel, if you think you might care to try them.

Eight short stories set in Edinburgh, Scotland, including the Orange/Scotsman Award-Winning 'Cross Words', a tale of madness and murder; 'Grandmother's Clock', a true 'ghost' story about a mysterious and unpredictable heirloom; and 'Ukraine Girls', the self-contained opening chapter of Bruce Beckham's upcoming thriller of the same title.

[Fbone]

Triggerfish Twist by Tim Dorsey [HarperCollins] is 99 cents at most retailers. His books are also available through library's Overdrive.

https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=-_Z9OEa7EywC

[Lynx-lynx]

Originally Posted by Pangolin

I thought the Janissary Tree was really good - Goodwin loves the culture and has travelled extensively in the region and has written a good non-fiction history book on Turkey. Well structured and a likeable 'hero/sleuth'.

Thanks for the info and recommendation.

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Flesh and Blood by Michael Lister (SYKM), a short story collection and 3rd book in his John Jordan Mysteries starring a Florida prison chaplain, originally out from small press Pottersville in 2006. We've previously received two of his Adams Media books as official publisher promo freebies some years ago if you're in the mood for more Florida-set crime fiction, and another John Jordan book was a KDP freebie a few years ago which you might have picked up then as well.

NB: the Publisher's Weekly review says that some of the stories are more faith-exploring parables than mysteries and thus may have more appeal for a Christian-oriented audience. YMMV.

John Jordan is back—investigating eternal mysteries woven into the fabric of everyday life. Within the confines of seemingly ordinary cases, John explores the ineffable and inexplicable, the profoundly mysterious within the mundane.

In this diverse collection of cases, John investigates the Shroud of Turin, a pregnant virgin, a daring prison break, a Hurricane Katrina orphan who might just be the Second Coming, a desperate woman who sleeps with one too many men, a bloody body on the rec yard, a mystery that turns on a single observation, and a murder in which John himself is the prime suspect—all this as he deals with depression and battles alcoholism.

These stories are puzzles, whodunits, and enigmas, but they are much more. John Jordan doesn't just solve crime, he investigates the hidden heart of humanity and the mysterious world in which we live. Here are temporal answers and eternal questions, and at the center of it all, a conflicted man of faith and doubt, flawed, but faithful, who ministers mercy even as he thirsts for justice.

[Dr. Drib]

Picked up the Michael Lister.

Thank you!

[mitford13]

An oldie for free on Amazon:

A Matter of Policy by Sam Merwin, Jr.

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B...cm_cd_asin_lnk

A Matter of Policy is an enthralling read that begins when a young friend of Amy Brewster’s finds his life in jeopardy when an unknown mastermind insures it for one million dollars. This is the first of three classic Amy Brewster mysteries available for the first time in over fifty years! When a private detective hired to protect the young man is the first victim, Amy Brewster must think fast and act faster if she is to learn who is behind the plot on the young man’s life in time to save him. Is it Tosta Kaaren, AKA the Canarsie Swede, a platinum-blond nightclub singer whose real name is Toots Carlin? Or Paulie Paulec, the local crime boss who has a finger in every racket in town? Or playboy Lance Torrey, whose sources of income are suspect at best. A Matter of Policy is the first of three suspenseful Amy Brewster reprints by the legendary Golden Age mystery writer/editor, Sam Merwin, Jr.

[BearMountainBooks]

I love how the "real name" is Toots. That is hilarious.

[HarryT]

Thanks - free at Amazon UK, too.

[ATDrake]

X-link to the sci-fi thread:

Free from the author via Smashwords (may be price-matched elsewhere): Time for Sherlock Holmes by David Dvorkin, an sfnal Holmes pastiche originally out from Dodd Mead in 1983.

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by mitford13

An oldie for free on Amazon:

A Matter of Policy by Sam Merwin, Jr.

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B...cm_cd_asin_lnk

Thanks. also free at amazon.ca

http://www.amazon.ca/Matter-Policy-A.../dp/B000F83SZQ

[Lynx-lynx]

Free on Amazon Aus

An Act of Evil
Robert Richardson

blurb:

When a rare, misprinted edition of a sixteenth-century Bible is stolen from Vercaster Cathedral, Augustus Maltravers, a visiting playwright and the irreverent brother-in-law of Canon Cowan, sees the theft as nothing more than an amusing distraction.

But the matter turns more serious when his close friend, Diana Porter, is discovered missing from the Dean's garden party.

Diana is a talented and beautiful London actress – but also a woman who has recently been involved in controversial publicity.

As the police launch a nationwide hunt, her severed hand is found nailed to a front door.

The search for Diana escalates into a murder hunt.

Consumed with fears for Diana’s safety, Maltravers cannot stop thinking there could be a bizarre connection with the stolen Bible.

With his partner, Tess Davy, he starts asking his own questions, but finds no answers.

As the festival continues with the staging of ancient Mystery Plays, his anguish mounts until a chance remark leads him to a horrifying explanation for Diana’s disappearance.

And Maltravers is about to discover that a single ‘Act of Evil’ can have terrifying consequences.

‘An Act of Evil’ is a brilliantly tense murder mystery that is perfect for fans of PD James and Ruth Rendell.

Praise for Robert Richardson.

''With this, his first novel, Robert Richardson makes a most impressive debut as a writer of the classical English detective story… He knows how to create suspense and an atmosphere of incipient evil; he provides us with a genuine puzzle, his characters are believable people, and the motive of his murderer is psycho-logically credible.” P D James

“Skilful rerouting and the taste of real tears” The Sunday Times

“Eccentrics, suspects and witty writing abound” The Times

“Here is a book to be missed only at your own peril” Armchair Detective

“Elegantly written, beautifully characterised, suspenseful and oddly moving” Mystery Reader’s Journal

“Grand entertainment, deft handling and suave wit” Publishers Weekly

Robert Richardson is a journalist and editor who lives in England.

free Amazon UK
free Amazon CA
free Amazon US

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Open Season by C J Box

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Season-...362247031_f_13

(Just spotted this is a duplicated post from the main Freebie section - sorry)

[sufue]

Open Road/Prime Crime have a selection of mysteries and thrillers available at $1.99 for a limited time. The email about it just dropped into my Inbox this morning, 9/24.

Prime Crime: Mysteries and Thrillers on Sale
Delve into the world of vintage mysteries! Put your detective skills to the test and solve the mysteries in our collection of Prime Crime. Ebooks are on sale for $1.99 for a limited time. Discover them all here.

I have seen some of these recently listed in this thread, but not all, and I don't have the time to check right now one-by-one, so am just providing the list and the overall link.

Although they say $1.99, Open Road is couponable at Kobo US, so can be purchased for less there with a coupon code.

List:

LA Morse: The Old Dick
Charles Williams: The Hot Spot
James M Cain: Enchanted Isle
Richard S Prather: The Case of the Vanishing Beauty
Black Mask: The Paul Cain Omnibus
John Sandrolini: One for our Baby
Horace McCoy: I Should Have Stayed Home
Michael Mayo: Jimmy the Stick
James Ross: They Don't Dance Much
Dorothy B Hughes: The So Blue Marble
Michael Crichton writing as John Lange: Easy Go

As always, Open Road doesn't make it very intuitive how to buy the books - you have to click on the cover image and then hit the "Buy the ebook" button in the pop-up which appears, and then select the retailer from the drop-down list. Or, of course, you can just go directly to your favorite retailer and find the book by searching there.

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK (Endeavour press) - The Blackout Murders by Leo Kessler

'Wartime London, 1942.
London in the blackout is dangerous enough without a murderer wandering the streets…
But just like sixty-odd years before, a fiend is loose in the dark fogbound streets of London.
Unlike Jack the Ripper, this monster looks for women in uniform to mutilate and kill, and every time he leaves behind a badge: that of the newly formed US commandos…the Rangers.
Is the killer an American?
The possibility has far-reaching consequences for Anglo-American cooperation now that the US has entered the war.
And London is teeming with American servicemen…
London’s police force are pushed to the limit, but urgent orders from the highest level, they start the search for the demented killer.
Winston Churchill wants answers, and the investigation leads to a denouement at in the corridors of power… '


UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blackout-Mur...ndeavour+press

US
http://www.amazon.com/Blackout-Murde...ndeavour+press

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Blackout-Mu...ndeavour+press

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Blackout-Murder...ndeavour+press