Free/Bargain Mystery/Suspense/Thriller July 2014

[HarryT]

Not your fault . Just wanted to encourage others not to waste any time on it.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Guess this what happens when attempting to post with a kitten trying to lie on the keyboard!

Don't worry, it will get you trained properly before to long.

[KyBunnies]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Not your fault . Just wanted to encourage others not to waste any time on it.

Sorry HarryT & Mort I have tried to read a different book by the author. I should of said something but I prefer cozy mystery.

[Synamon]

Slow Horses by Mick Herron is on sale at Amazon for $1.99. It's a very funny thriller with washed up spies, I enjoyed reading it a couple of years ago.

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by Synamon

Slow Horses by Mick Herron is on sale at Amazon for $1.99. It's a very funny thriller with washed up spies, I enjoyed reading it a couple of years ago.

Thanks Synamon! I had that on my wish list for the longest time, waiting for it to come out in paperback.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Synamon

Slow Horses by Mick Herron is on sale at Amazon for $1.99. It's a very funny thriller with washed up spies, I enjoyed reading it a couple of years ago.

I picked this up, based upon your recommendation.

Thanks!

[carpetmojo]

Only 72p on UK

[tlc]

Several (49!) of The Saint books by Leslie Charteris are $1.99
starting with #2, Enter the Saint
http://www.amazon.com/Enter-Saint-Le.../dp/B00I0I02ZW

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by tlc

Several (49!) of The Saint books by Leslie Charteris are $1.99
starting with #2, Enter the Saint
http://www.amazon.com/Enter-Saint-Le.../dp/B00I0I02ZW

Quickly counting, it looks like Amazon is offering 49 titles at $1.99, all with these nice uniform covers.

That's a great opportunity to acquire a matching series.

Thanks for the head's up on these.

[BelleZora]

Still Life With Murder (Nell Sweeney Historical Mysteries #1) by P.B. Ryan. First published by Berkley in 2003. This one goes free periodically. I enjoyed it enough to buy and read the entire series a couple of years ago. Goodreads

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003UV98MM

Boston 1868: The wealthy are enjoying the height of the Gilded Age--but not all are wealthy. As governess to the Hewitt family, Irish immigrant Nell Sweeney is sent to discover the truth behind the rumor that their son--thought to be killed in the Civil War--is still alive and in prison.

[peachiekene]

Originally Posted by BelleZora

Still Life With Murder (Nell Sweeney Historical Mysteries #1) by P.B. Ryan. First published by Berkley in 2003. This one goes free periodically. I enjoyed it enough to buy and read the entire series a couple of years ago. Goodreads

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003UV98MM

Thanks!

Also free at Kobo, B&N, and iTunes.

[soulfuldog]

Originally Posted by Synamon

Slow Horses by Mick Herron is on sale at Amazon for $1.99. It's a very funny thriller with washed up spies, I enjoyed reading it a couple of years ago.

Originally Posted by carpetmojo

Only 72p on UK

I've just bitten at that price too.... even if I end up disagreeing with Synamon's recommendation, I'm sure it'll at least be worth 72p of my money. My kind of low risk!

[KyBunnies]

Free - Air Apparent by John Gardner

Published in 1970 by Putman

Boysie Oakes, ex anguished agent, ex defective private eye, and greying horrifically at the temples, is facing the wilderness of middle-age supported only by the Welfare State.

At long last Boysie Oakes has reached seedy maturity - and he plans to grow old quietly without any more dangerous missions.

Until, like an evil genie, up pops his oily old boss, Mostyn, offering a life of renewed luxury.

Boysie is to become the sole British Director of Air Apparent, an airline which operates from one office, has no aircraft, yet, by juggling with officialdom and illegally chartering aeroplanes, manages to transfer its customers to their destinations at half the scheduled fares and still makes a vast profit.

But when Boysie discovers that Air Apparent is being used for more nefarious purposes, such as the shipment of arms to third world nations, he is forced to call in his old shooting partner, Charlie Griffin.

Events crowd in, culminating in a hijacking, hilarity and, naturally, hectic hedonism.

[KyBunnies]

Free - Foxbat by James Barrington

Published 2007 by Macmillan UK

The year is 1976.

The Cold War is at its height.

A Russian front-line pilot defects to Japan in a MiG-25 Foxbat interceptor, flying virtually at sea level to avoid the pursuing fighters and surface-to-air missiles.

With about thirty seconds of fuel remaining, he lands at Hakodate Airport, bursting a tyre and skidding off the runway.

But before the aircraft was handed back to the Russians, American intelligence agencies reduced it to a pile of components and then rebuilt it.

Despite the wealth of intelligence gleaned, they completely failed to realise the purpose for which the Foxbat was created.

In the present day, American satellites have detected unusual activity at several Algerian air bases, and at Aïn Oussera a large hangar has been cordoned off and armed guards posted outside.

Western intelligence agencies suspect that Algeria might be preparing its forces to launch an attack on Libya or Morocco, unleashing a war across the region.

They’re also concerned that they might have obtained new aircraft or weapon systems, perhaps secreted in the guarded hangar at Aïn Oussera.

The only way to find out is to get someone to look inside the building, and it will have to be a covert insertion.

Paul Richter is called in as ‘a deniable asset’.

But what is the connection to events almost forty years earlier?

Richter must find out before it is too late.

'Foxbat' is an exciting non-stop thriller that moves rapidly through Bulgaria, Russia, and ultimately North Korea.

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by KyBunnies

Free - Air Apparent by John Gardner

Published in 1970 by Putman

Thanks KB! I've loved the Boysie Oakes stories since the '60s.