Australian & New Zealand crime/mystery/espionage authors free and bargain

[Lynx-lynx]

Amazon Aus Deal of the Day - 3 x Barry Maitland books

The Chalon Heads
$2.19

When Sammy Starling, a former London gangster with a passion for collecting, discovers that his beautiful young wife is missing, he assumes old enemies in the police force are taking their revenge. Ten years ago Starling's evidence of police corruption put DI Marty Keller, an ambitious, clever young cop with everything to live for, behind bars. Now Keller is out. And getting even.

But as investigations into Eva Starling's disappearance proceed, it's DCI David Brock who is under suspicion of corruption. His team is disbanded and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla is reassigned to the Fraud Squad. Unsuccessfully trying to come to terms with Brock's disgrace, Kolla needs to find out why nothing in this case seems to be making sense.

Using the tenacity, ingenuity and intelligence Brock is relying on, Kolla links the pieces in this puzzle of kidnapping, murder and revenge, and finds answers that no one is expecting.

ng on, Kolla links the pieces in this puzzle of kidnapping, murder and revenge, and finds answers that no one is expecting.

The Marx Sisters, Maitland's first novel, was shortlisted for the John Creasey Award for best first crime novel and his second, The Malcontenta, was joint winner of the inaugural Ned Kelly Award for best crime novel. All My Enemies followed in 1996 and The Chalon Heads is the fourth gripping case for the Scotland Yard team of DCI Brock and his assistant DS Kathy Kolla.

Silver Meadow
$2.19

Silvermeadow, calculated, manipulative and dressed up to deceive. If this glossy, huge new shopping mall on the outskirts of London had been a suspect rather than a place, Kathy Kolla would have said its manner was guilty as hell. Dark secrets fester in its depths. A young woman is found dead, gruesomely crushed in the rubbish compactor; the most vicious bank robber known in England has been seen there; and a homeless boy is discovered dead in bizarre circumstances.

Too many dead, too many secrets, and for Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla there are too many loose ends in this, their most frustrating and dangerous investigation yet.

'Comparable to the psychological crime novelists, such as Ruth Rendell tight plots, great dialogue, very atmospheric.' - Sydney Morning Herald

'Sure to confirm Maitland's status as a leading practitioner of the detective writer's craft. It's a terrific read.' - Canberra Times

All My Enemies
$3.09

Brock & Kolla join forces in a sinister case of secrets, obsession and murder.

In one of the finest and most pivotal books in the critically acclaimed Brock & Kolla series, DS Kathy Kolla reports to New Scotland Yard and to DCI Brock's Serious Crime Division.

Just before Kolla is to start her new job, a young woman is found viciously murdered in a leafy, well-heeled suburb, and the grotesque details of the slaughter appear to be well rehearsed, even theatrical. Assigned to the case, Kolla's only improbable lead draws her to a local amateur drama group. Once in their orbit, she is lured into a piece of theatre, over which, increasingly, she has little control. In All My Enemies, Brock and Kolla find themselves in a tangled web of secrets, lies and murder.

'Maitland's writing is suspenseful, gripping and frightening. His book is seductive, getting under the reader's skin and staying there. This is a fine example of modern thriller writing. Highly recommended.' Eastern Daily Press, UK

'Maitland is a masterful writer of crime fiction who, like Michael Dibdin, has a remarkable ability to juxtapose genres and create a book that will appeal to fans of both hard-boiled and clue-puzzle fiction. It's a book about deception in marriages, suburban life and the theatre that works sublimely on all levels.' Sydney Morning Herald

[mitford13]

Hi Lynx-lynx,
Not sure if you're interested in US sale.prices, but the first of Shane Maloney's Murray Whelan books is on sale for $4.99, from $9.99, on Amazon.com.

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

[Lynx-lynx]

Mitford thanks for the info

It'll be just the thing for people with VPN

Unfortunately in Aus, Stiff is $14.17 at Amazon and $17.79 at Kobo

[Lynx-lynx]

MacMillan Aus has deemed that Luke Preston's Dark City Blue be 0.99c at both Kobo Aus and Amazon Aus

If there's one thing worse than a crooked cop on your heels then it's a whole unit of them.

A fistful of people are murdered, fifteen million dollars is stolen and detective Tom Bishop is stuck in the middle. When he hits the street, every clue points in the same direction – his colleagues in a police department demoralised by cutbacks and scandals. Hunted, alone and with no place left to turn, Bishop embarks on a hellish journey down into the gutters where right and wrong quickly become twisted and problems are solved with gunfire and bloodshed.

Over the next two days, Tom Bishop will be cornered. He will be beaten. He will bust into prison. He will shoot at police. He will team up with violent criminals. He will become one of them. He will break every rule in the book, chasing a lead nobody else will go near down a rabbit hole of corruption, murder and buried secrets.

Will Bishop become the very monster he set out to destroy?

LONGLISTED FOR BEST FIRST FICTION, 2013 NED KELLY AWARDS

"Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat." – Trent Jamieson, author of the Death Works trilogy

" ... noir on No-Doz ... " – Fair Dinkum Crime

[Lynx-lynx]

Free on Kobo Aus - the Australian Edition of Bloomsbury's

Short Sentence
10 Stories of Dastardly Deeds - Australian Edition

From Obsession and Payback to Secrets and Lies, Deception and Bad Judgement, these thrilling tales will shock and surprise you with their cunning. Short Sentence was launched in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing, in association with the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook.

Following a short story written by one of Bloomsbury’s brilliant crime authors, competitors were challenged to take up the same theme and write of a dastardly deed using 1000 words or less.

This is Bloomsbury Australia’s collection of the winning entries in parallel with the five brilliant authors, Parker Bilal, Conor Fitzgerald, Anne Zouroudi, Thomas Mogford and Michael Harvey.

Amazon Aus also have Short Sentence free, but Amazon doesn't indicate whether it's the Bloomsbury Aus edition or not.

[Lynx-lynx]

Amazon Aus Deal of the Day, Helen FitzGerald's

The Cry
99cents

When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensation and dinner-table talk across the world.

Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other.

Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? And what will it take to make things right?

The Cry is a dark psychological thriller with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart and characters who will keep you guessing on every page.

[Lynx-lynx]

On both Kobo Aus and Amazon Aus, US author Jeanne Matthews'

Bones of Contention
$1.05 Kobo and discountable - see the Kobo Discounts thread for the codes
$1.03 Amazon

The Top End of Australia is teeming with crocodiles, poisonous snakes, and curious Aboriginal myths. It’s a strange place to choose to end one’s life, but that is what Dinah Pelerin’s wealthy American uncle has done.

Dying of cancer, he has summoned his entire family—current wife, ex-wife, assorted children and niece—to a remote, comfortless lodge where he intends to rewrite his will and commit suicide with the aid of a rogue Australian physician with whom he shares a mysterious history.

Dinah sees this time with her uncle as a last chance to learn the truth about her father, who died during the commission of a felony when she was a child. But when she arrives, she discovers that the truth has darker ramifications.

Her artist brother thinks he’s possessed by the spirit of a snake god; her uncle is obsessed with a woman he married but could never possess; the rest of the family is seething with resentments; and a man none of them claims to know is murdered on a nearby island, impaled on the back of a sea turtle.

A wannabe anthropologist with a passion for mythology, Dinah tries to sort out the complicated song lines of her own ancestors while struggling to solve not one, but two, bizarre murders.

[Lynx-lynx]

Well it's been a while but finally another Aus author has come on special.

Amazon Aus Deal of the Day:

Chelsea Mansions
Barry Maitland
$0.99

Blurb:

When Nancy Haynes, an elderly American tourist, is brutally murdered in a seemingly senseless attack after visiting the Chelsea Flower Show, DI Kathy Kolla suspects there is more to the case than first appears. When another occupant of the palatial Chelsea Mansions is murdered hot on the heels of the first - but this time a Russian oligarch - everybody wants to get involved.

Is it a Litvinenko-style KGB assassination? The spooks muscling in certainly think so. Are the murders linked? Or is Nancy's death just the result of mistaken identity? Kathy is determined to dig deeper, but comes up against walls of silence. If she persists, does she risk her career - and possibly more? DCI Brock, meanwhile, faces the fight of his life as his past comes back to haunt him.

A crime long buried, a deadly African virus, and some of the most resourceful criminals Brock and Kolla have ever faced, conspire to make this Maitland's best mystery yet.

Note: not on special at Kobo Aus

[artig]

Probably the normal price, but there's a self-published book from Amazon.com based loosely on one of our local newspapers for $0.97.
The Last Newspaper in the World
Mick Stone

When the mayor of his small town is found dead in a drain, reluctant reporter Bill Brown is drawn in to chase down the biggest ever story in Coastlands for his family-owned newspaper. Bill would rather go surfing, drink coffee and flirt with the mysterious Angelique, anything rather working on The Last Newspaper in the World. Bill's easy life is about to change, as the death propels him to take his work, and life, more seriously as he is thrown into the murder investigation. Besides being a murder mystery with a twist, the story is set against the backdrop of diminishing demand for news on paper and pressures from mega-media groups, highlighting the new hazards and challenges facing journalists in the 21st Century.

I've just bought it, but haven't started reading it yet. It's on the TBR list with about 150 others.

[Lynx-lynx]

Free Amazon Aus

Earthly Delights (Corinna Chapman No 1)
Kerry Greenwood

blurb:

Baking is an alchemical process for Corinna Chapman. At four am she starts work at Earthly Delights, her bakery in Calico Alley.
But one morning Corinna receives a threatening note saying 'The wages of sin is death' and finds a syringe in her cat's paw. A blue-faced junkie has collapsed in the dark alley and a mysterious man with beautiful eyes appears with a plan for Corinna and her bread. Then it is Goths, dead drug addicts, witchcraft, a homeless boy and a missing girl and it seems she will never get those muffins cooked in time.
With flair, chutzpah and a talent for kneading, Corinna Chapman will find out who exactly is threatening her life and bake some beautiful bread.

Free on Amazon US
Not free on Amazon UK CA
Not free on Kobo

[mitford13]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Free Amazon Aus

Earthly Delights (Corinna Chapman No 1)
Kerry Greenwood

blurb:


Free on Amazon US
Not free on Amazon UK CA
Not free on Kobo

Check out Lynx-Lynx's Aussie/US link/cover, then check out this American as apple pie link/cover:
http://smile.amazon.com/Earthly-Deli...1603133&sr=1-1

[Lynx-lynx]

woot!!! Maybe the publisher didn't think the US community would understand a woman with a whip meant business!!!

[mitford13]

I've seen some weird re-brandings/cover changes over the years, but never anything that extreme! Would be fun if they were offered for sale side by side, and customers got to choose...
Publishers, bah!

[Lynx-lynx]

Free on Amazon Aus:

The Profiler (The Munro Family Series Book 1)
Chris Taylor

blurb:

A psychopathic killer is stalking the women of Sydney . . .
Federal Agent Clayton Munro, a criminal profiler with the Australian Federal Police (AFP), has been called upon to assist in hunting down a vicious murderer who is intent upon carving up his victims while they’re still alive. Guilt-stricken over his wife’s suicide, Clayton’s forced to set aside his personal issues in order to focus on the case.

Detective Ellie Cooper is also no stranger to heartache. Pregnant and abandoned at the altar by a fiancé intent on pursuing a career with the AFP, her opinion of the elite body of officers is anything but favorable. Angered when her boss orders her to partner with the Fed, she’s determined not to cut him any slack.

But women are dying on the streets of western Sydney and the pressure is mounting to find the person responsible.
Will Clayton and Ellie be able to put aside their animosity and work together to catch a killer before it’s too late? And what about the special fascination the killer seems to have with Ellie . . .

Some reviewers say that there is a fair deal of romance in this book as well - which may/may not suit your tastes.

[sufue]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Free on Amazon Aus:

The Profiler (The Munro Family Series Book 1)
Chris Taylor

blurb:


Some reviewers say that there is a fair deal of romance in this book as well - which may/may not suit your tastes.

Also free right now on Kobo US, for those (like me) who aren't in Australia, but like reading about it

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-profiler-5