FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[sufue]

The five titles (so far, per SYKM) in the Hangman's Daughter series by Oliver Pötzsch have all dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link for all five (and two short stories that sneak in there): https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...ch&price=0-200

The five full-length titles are:

• The Hangman's Daughter
• The Dark Monk
• The Beggar King
• The Poisoned Pilgrim
• The Werewolf of Bamberg

[sufue]

Four titles in the Charlie Peace series by Robert Barnard have dropped to $3.99 at Kindle US. This is about the upper limit that I will consider to be on sale for backlist titles, but Barnard is pretty well known and won a Diamond Dagger, so...

Bad Samaritan, #4
link: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Samaritan.../dp/B0061Q64WK

Spoiler:

When British policemen Charlie Pearce and Mike Oddie investigate the unsurprising murder of the village parish Lothario, they question Rosemary Sheffield, the vicar’s wife. Rosemary, who has recently “lost” her faith and been accused of immoral behavior with a Yugoslavian refugee, makes a perfect suspect. Another winning combination of plot, character, and wit from Barnard.

The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori, #6
link: https://www.amazon.com/Corpse-at-Haw.../dp/B007Z4RW00

Spoiler:

The body of a young man, almost naked, found in the car park behind a Haworth restaurant marks the beginning of the case, and it is his identity that is the first puzzle for DC Charlie Peace and his superior, Detective Superintendent Oddie. But before long the puzzle that most concerns them is the nature of the close-knit artistic community where Declan O’Hearn had acted as odd-job boy. The little knot of people seem united less by their ability as painters than by a common worship of the distinguished artist Ranulph Byatt, who seems to prefer the adulation of his inferiors to the judgement of his equals. Peace soon starts to wonder if there isn’t a sinister reason for this. And as the search for the killer gathers pace, Peace and Oddie uncover a series of dark secrets in the harsh Haworth landscape.

The Killings on Jubilee Terrace, #9
link: https://www.amazon.com/Killings-Jubi.../dp/B0026SCMM8

Spoiler:

Vernon Watts may have been beloved by the millions of faithful viewers of the long-running soap opera Jubilee Terrace but his fellow cast members knew him for what he was -- an egotistical former music-hall performer whose untimely death in a pedestrian accident was not something to be universally regretted.

Sadly, though, director Reggie Friedman soon fills the supposed void by asking Hamish Fawley, an equally unpleasant former member of the Jubilee Terrace troupe, to rejoin the soap. Hamish was never much liked. Now he's more obnoxious than ever.

The mood on the set is not exactly serene, a situation made worse when the police receive an anonymous letter suggesting that Vernon Watts's "accident" may in fact have been murder. Did one of his fellow actors push Vernon into the oncoming traffic?

Detective Inspector Charlie Peace faces tough challenges as he probes the make-believe world of skilled thespians to find a possible killer. With a cast of suspects who are trained to emote on cue, Charlie will need all of his policeman's instincts if he's to avert further tragedy.

Writing with his usual acerbic wit and penetrating insight into human foibles, acclaimed master of mystery Robert Barnard gives us another winning entry in his magnificent body of work.

A Charitable Body, #10
link: https://www.amazon.com/Charitable-Bo.../dp/B004T4KROM

Spoiler:

What an honor, to become a trustee of one of England’s distinguished stately homes. Yorkshire cop Charlie Peace’s wife Felicity is at first thrilled when she’s asked to help oversee Walbrook Manor, a recent gift to the nation. It’s not long, though, before both she and Charlie smell trouble. Suspenseful, witty and, as always, superbly insightful, A Charitable Body shows Barnard at his scintillating best.

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK-The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

WINNER OF THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2014.

Longlisted for the John Creasey Dagger Award for best debut crime novel of 2014.

London, 1727 - and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses into the hell of a debtors' prison.

The Marshalsea is a savage world of its own, with simple rules: those with family or friends who can lend them a little money may survive in relative comfort. Those with none will starve in squalor and disease. And those who try to escape will suffer a gruesome fate at the hands of the gaol's rutheless governor and his cronies.

The trouble is, Tom Hawkins has never been good at following rules - even simple ones. And the recent grisly murder of a debtor, Captain Roberts, has brought further terror to the gaol. While the Captain's beautiful widow cries for justice, the finger of suspicion points only one way: to the sly, enigmatic figure of Samuel Fleet.

Some call Fleet a devil, a man to avoid at all costs. But Tom Hawkins is sharing his cell. Soon, Tom's choice is clear: get to the truth of the murder - or be the next to die.



https://www.amazon.co.uk/Devil-Marsh...362247031_f_11

Updated - fumble fingers typing on my IPad first thing in the morning - should have seen the first attempt!

[HarryT]

Thanks, Mort. Note that it's "Marshalsea" (one word) - the debtors' prison.

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Private View by Meg Elizabeth Atkins

Spoiler:

Chatfield, 1986

After a private art viewing on a bleak February evening, the local gallery owner – the flamboyantly camp Minim Minikin – is found murdered.

A painting on display has also been stolen.

The case has DCI Sheldon Hunter stumped.

After months of enquiry, the investigation has turned up nothing.

No suspects, no murder weapon, no painting and, indeed, no artist.

The identity of the painter, Fayne, whose work disappeared that fateful night was as much a mystery to the police as to the art world at large.

Reluctantly, with no leads to pursue, the case is marked unsolved and forgotten amongst heap of other unresolved cases.

Four years later and Hunter receives a series of anonymous letters and phone calls alleging that a family in the picturesque town of Rush Deeping is somehow involved in the death.

His interest piqued, he decides to investigate further.

Apart from being pillars of the community and monstrously self-regarding, the Saddlers seem somewhat unremarkable.

But as Hunter digs around, he soon discovers that their son, Ian, is missing and his mystery caller claims it has something to do with the artist Fayne.

Can Hunter get to the truth before another body turns up?

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Private-Vie...ndeavour+press

US
https://www.amazon.com/Private-View-...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Private-Vi...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Private-View-M...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - A Killing Term by Robyn Sheffield

Spoiler:

The body count is rising…

Detective-Inspector Jones could discover no motive for the suspicious death of the young man who worked in Chalingford’s Planning Office.

Like others, he could speculate about what went on, but despite his best efforts he was no closer to solving the case.

Driven by ambition, Robert Howick – headmaster of Trelawne School – inwardly quakes at the fear that certain dark and damning secrets could, if known, entirely destroy his hopes for the future.

But with the power to hire and fire his staff the way he sees fit, he believed he was unassailable

However, when a body flies off the roof of Civic Hall, Detective-Inspector Jones is drawn into the tangled world of Trelawne School and its complicated inhabitants

Jones suspects that there is more going on at the school than first meets the eye and when a second body turns up, his thoughts are all but confirmed.

Jones is certain that the mysterious events are linked with the crooked dealings at Chalingford’s Planning Office.

He just doesn’t know how to prove it.

When Jones gets called out to the third crime scene, this one on the grounds of Trelawne School itself, and things finally begin to fall into place…

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Killing-Ter...ndeavour+press

US
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Term-...ndeavour+press

Au
https://www.amazon.com.au/Killing-Te...ndeavour+press

Can
https://www.amazon.ca/Killing-Term-R...ndeavour+press

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Rules of Murder (A Drew Farthering Mystery Book #1) by Julianna Deering - Repeat from 2015

Spoiler:

Introducing Drew Farthering

From The Tip of his black Homburg to the crease in his stylish cheviot trousers, he's the epitome of a stylish 1930s English gentleman. His only problem? The body he just discovered.

Drew Farthering loves a good mystery, although he generally expects to find it in the pages of a novel, not on the grounds of his country estate.

With the help of beautiful and whip-smart Madeline Parker, a guest from America, Drew proposes to use the lessons he's learned reading his mysteries to solve the crime. Before long, he realizes this is no lark, and no one at Farthering Place is who he or she appears to be--not the butler nor blackmailer, the chauffeur nor embezzler. Trying hard to remain one step ahead of the killer--and trying harder to impress Madeline--Drew must decide how far to take this dangerous game.

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rules-Murde...362247031_f_53

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Who Pays the Piper?: An Ernest Lamb Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

Spoiler:

“I wouldn’t like to make you really angry, darling. You know, the only time I did you nearly scared me dead. I believe if you were really roused you might do something rather frightful.”

Lucas Dale, new owner of King’s Bourne, was flirting with danger when he showed his priceless collection of pearls to the guests assembled in his period salon. But when, under threat, he forced lovely Susan Lenox to break her engagement and consent to marry him, he started a train of events that inevitably led to murder, shattering the quiet of the English village. Bill Carrick, Susan’s former fiancé, is the primary suspect, but as Inspector Ernest Lamb and Detective Frank Abbott soon discover, Dale’s questionable past offered motives of revenge and greed to darken the mystery. Motives which would lead another victim into the path of murder…

Who Pays the Piper? was first published in 1940. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Pays-Pi...362247031_f_59

[TrevorViking]

Rules of Murder, US link
https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Murder-...-21#nav-subnav

[GeoffR]

Graham Masterton's Buried, book #6 in his Katie Maguire series, is £0.99 / €0.99 / $1.99 at UK / Euro / AU+NZ retailers.

[sufue]

Three titles in the Roger the Chapman series by Kate Sedley have dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US.

Midsummer Crown, #20
link: https://www.amazon.com/Midsummer-Cro.../dp/B005C4O01O

Spoiler:

The new Roger the Chapman mystery - In the sultry midsummer of 1483, as Richard of Gloucester begins his bid for the English crown, Roger returns home to Bristol, glad to be out of the capital. But almost immediately, the Duke recalls him to London to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young boy whose tutor has been found murdered, apparently in a locked room. It is an investigation which has as its background an ancient British legend, and which will imperil Roger’s life as never before.

Green Man, #17
link: https://www.amazon.com/Green-Roger-C.../dp/B00FJ3641C

Spoiler:

An English army invades Scotland in order to put King James the Thirds renegade younger brother, the Duke of Albany, on the Scottish throne. Albany insists his old acquaintance, Roger the Chapman, be a member of his personal bodyguard. But during the march northwards, a series of sinister events, centred around the cult figure of the mythical Green Man, makes Roger question Albanys true motive for requesting his presence . . .

Tintern Treasure, #21
link: https://www.amazon.com/Tintern-Treas.../dp/B00AMQFA9I

Spoiler:

An important discovery puts Roger the Chapman’s life in danger . . . - In the autumn of 1483, Roger goes on an errand of mercy to Hereford, where he is caught up in the Duke of Buckingham’s rebellion against the new king, Richard III. Roger takes refuge in Tintern Abbey, but on his return to Bristol, a murder and a series of house robberies lead him to the eventual discovery of the treasure stolen from the abbey on the night he was there. It also means great danger, not only for himself, but a member of his family . . .

[sufue]

Two titles in the Mara/Burren series by Cora Harrison have dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US.

Writ in Stone, Mara/Burren #4
link: https://www.amazon.com/Writ-Stone-Bu.../dp/B004ZGLCUM

Spoiler:

A Mystery of Medieval Ireland - Christmas, 1509. Mara, the investigating judge of the Burren, has accepted the offer of marriage made by King Turlough. But on the eve of the marriage festivities, a man kneeling in prayer in the abbey church is violently murdered. Who could have planned to kill the king? Cut off from the outside world by heavy snow, Mara must act quickly to catch the assassin before a second death occurs.

Eye of the Law, Mara/Burren #5
link: https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Burren-My.../dp/B004ZGLDLU

Spoiler:

A Mystery of Medieval Ireland - 1510. A great feast is being held. Into a crowd listening to the story of Balor, the one-eyed god, come two strangers. The younger of the two, Iarla, bears a letter that claims that the wealthy Ardal O'Lochlainn is his true father - which Ardal vociferously denies. So when Iarla is found dead, with one eye missing, some think he was killed by the god - but most suspect Ardal. Mara, the Brehon - or lawgiver - of the Burren, is called to investigate.

[sufue]

Requiem for a Slave is the 11th in the excellent (IMO) Libertus series by Rosemary Rowe. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US.

(With this and the previous few I've posted, it looks as if Severn House is doing a serious sale on some of their historical mystery titles. I like almost all of these series, and hope they continue this...)

link: https://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Slave.../dp/B004ZGLDXI

Spoiler:

The eleventh book in the Libertus Mystery of Roman Britain series - Libertus has an important order to fulfil for Quintus Severus, who has commissioned a new mosaic. But when Lucius, the pie-maker, is found dead in Libertus' workshop, and Libertus' faithful slave Minimus is missing, he is once again dragged into a criminal underworld. Can Libertus find Minimus, clear him of the murder, and discover who really killed the pie-seller, and why? The omens aren't looking good . . .

[sufue]

Death in Hellfire is the 12th in the John Rawlings historical mystery series by Deryn Lake. It's a repeat US Kindle countdown deal at $0.99 for about 6 more days.

Info in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3260671

[sufue]

The Coffin Ship is the first in the Richard Mariner series by Peter Tonkin, from which a number of other titles have been on sale over the last few months. It's a US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about 5 more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Coffin-Ship-P.../dp/B00IRX6AS8

Spoiler:

The giant supertanker Prometheus, the largest ship on Earth, sits at anchor in the Persian Gulf. In her tanks are 250,000 tons of crude oil.

Somewhere on board is a crew member determined that she never completes her voyage to Europe. Already, many of the ship’s officers have been killed in a mysterious “accident”.

The fate of Prometheus rests in the hands of Richard Mariner, the tanker’s new captain. It is his responsibility to battle human treachery and the dangers of the open sea to bring Prometheus to safe harbour.

From the Persian Gulf to the storm-tossed Atlantic, Mariner and his crew must struggle against the elements while trying to uncover the elusive - and cunning - enemy in their midst.

Can Mariner solve the mystery on board and rescue the crew?

Or is Prometheus doomed to become a Coffin Ship?

‘A master of seagoing adventure!’ Clive Cussler

‘This kind of story has built-in excitement. Engrossing.’ The New York Times

‘Tonkin is a superb storyteller who creates big, brash, swashbuckling adventures with taut suspense, fast-paced action and tough, resourceful characters.’ Booklist

'The complex storyline commands full interest" Publishers Weekly

‘A bang-up story, which Tonkin tells with an insiders skill.’ New York Daily News.

Peter Tonkin was born in Northern Ireland, and was raised in the UK, Holland, Germany, and the Persian Gulf. He has written thirty novels including twenty-two Richard Mariner novels.