Freebies from Oceanview Publishing [Mysteries/Thrillers] (Amazon) [US]

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Various genres but mostly mysteries and thrillers. Some are repeats. There are about 12 or more, so I'm just putting the link to the list:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?...qid=1343984985

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Wow, thanks for the link, some interesting titles there!

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New repeat freebie Pocket-47 by Jude Hardin.

Rule #2 in private investigator Nicholas Colt’s Philosophy of Life: If you have a good Tuesday, Wednesday is likely to be a bitch.


Welcome to Wednesday.


Fifteen-year-old Brittney Ryan has taken to the streets. Colt is hired to find her and bring her home.


Piece of cake, he thinks. A surprise visit to the forbidden boyfriend should put this one in the scrapbook.


But something more sinister lurks behind Brittney’s disappearance, and Colt soon finds himself in an ever-widening maze of deceit, betrayal, and murder.


And, when he learns what the mysterious phrase Pocket-47 means, he is haunted even more by the plane crash that killed his family and rock band twenty years ago--a crash he now realizes might not have been an accident.


Colt is determined to save Brittney and untangle the threads of his own tortured past.


Unfortunately, one of the most heinous and violent criminals in modern history has other ideas.


Which might be okay, because…


Rule #1 in Nicholas Colt’s Philosophy of Life: Screw the rules. Let’s jam.

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The Third Coincidence by David Bishop

Headlines scream across the nation as a country in near panic pleads for the capture of the killers. With little progress, U.S. President Samuel Schroeder asks Jack McCall, a veteran of the CIA and Defense Intelligence, to head up a special multi-agency task force to find the killers. A frustrated and unhappy FBI designates, as its representative, Rachel Johnstone, an agent with whom Jack has had some personal history. The Third Coincidence unfolds amidst continued assassinations, accusations that the president is attempting to form his own secret police, and confirmation hearings for reluctant nominees to fill the vacant positions while the Supreme Court struggles to sustain a quorum. Will a terrorist group or a mad assassin succeed in destroying these revered intuitions? In the spirit of The Day of the Jackal and The Manchurian Candidate, this story is juxta-posed through the eyes of both the hunter and the hunted as the devious plot to change America hurdles forward.

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Free now:

Little Lamb Lost by Margaret Fenton

Social worker Claire Conover honestly believed she could make a difference in the world until she gets the phone call she’s dreaded her entire career. One of her young clients, Michael, has been found dead and his mother, Ashley, has been arrested for his murder. And who made the decision to return Michael to Ashley? Claire Conover.


Ashley had seemingly done everything right--gotten clean, found a place to live, worked two jobs, and earned back custody of her son. Devastated but determined to discover where her instincts failed her, Claire vows to find the truth about what really happened to Michael.


What Claire finds is no shortage of suspects. Ashley’s boyfriend made no secret that he didn’t want children. And Ashley’s stepfather, an alcoholic and chronic gambler, has a shady past. And what about Michael’s mysterious father and his family? Or Ashley herself? Was she really using again?


Amidst a heap of unanswered questions, one thing is for certain: Claire Conover is about to uncover secrets that could ruin lives--or end her own.

The Castro Gene by Todd Bucholz

After killing a man in the ring, Luke Braden quits boxing. While toiling as a security guard and yearning to reinvent himself, Luke is swept up into the high-flying domain of Paul Tremont.

Tremont, the hottest hedge fund hand around, has a penchant for the dramatic – and a disquieting need to control. Being Tremont’s protégé has its perks – Luke trades in his ratty basement apartment for a penthouse view, his gym clothes for designer suits. But there are strings attached – and Tremont is pulling the strings.

Why does Tremont need a washed-up boxer? The answer lies not in what Luke is, but who he is: Luke Braden is the only man who can execute Tremont’s diabolical scheme.

Fidel Castro risks one last trip to the U.S. And one man will be forced to stand in his way.

Luke is in for the fight of his life – or the fight for his life.

Intricately plotted with unexpected twists and breathtaking turns, The Castro Gene is a knockout.

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More freebies from Oceanview today:

Justice in June by Barbara Levenson.

Miami in June: it’s raining, it’s pouring, but the life of criminal defense attorney Mary Magruder Katz is anything but boring—especially when she gets caught up in a whirlwind of three different cases.


Judge Liz Maxwell’s job, sanity, and reputation are at stake, and she needs Mary to ferret out wrongdoing in Miami’s courts. Solving this case won’t just mean going out on a limb; it will mean risking life and limb.


Luis Corona, a family friend of Mary’s boyfriend, Carlos, needs help with a legal matter that, to Mary’s horror, turns out to be a terrorism charge. And this case will leave some catastrophic damage—and unwelcome notoriety—in its wake.


Just when Mary thought things couldn’t get worse, Carlos gets in his own nasty legal quandary—one that could cost him everything.


Three cases. One Mary. One torrential downpour of turmoil.


Can she weather the storm? Ride out the cold front that settles over her once-hot romance? Salvage what remains of her—and her clients’—reputations?


For Mary Magruder Katz, this month’s forecast calls for trouble.

Devil Wind by Linda Reid and Deborah Shlian

Fired from her job as a TV producer, Sammy Greene gets a second chance when she lands an after-midnight show at a small radio station in LA.

It’s December 1999, days before the dawn of the new millennium. With Y2K looming and the Santa Ana winds threatening to turn the city into a fiery inferno, LA is on edge—and Sammy’s listeners are burning up the phone lines predicting the end of time.

When a listener calls in to report the discovery of a burned body, Sammy starts to investigate and to her horror, learns that the victim is the wayward daughter of an old friend.

As she blazes a trail to find answers, Sammy realizes that this death was no accident. All signs point to murder—murder conveniently obscured by the raging wildfires.

But Sammy’s investigation takes a chilling turn when she uncovers a sinister plot that could claim thousands of innocent lives.

There’s evil at work in the City of the Angels. Time is running out. And Sammy Greene is playing with fire.

South Beach Shakedown (The Mick Sever Music & Mystery Series) by Don Bruns.

Mick Sever lands in the middle of a Miami music mystery. Ginny, commissioned to write the biography of music icon Gideon Pike, calls Mick in need of help. Seems Pike is missing and it’s up to Mick to look into the disappearance of the legendary musician. Pike, whom Mick befriended early in Pike’s career, has “disappeared” before, but this time – did he disappear because he wanted to, or because he had to?

Soon Mick and Ginny launch an all-out hunt for the flamboyant performer. But after a series of too-close close calls, frighteningly near near-misses, and murders, Mick must question just how well he knows Gideon. How much access had Gideon granted him? What – or from whom – is Gideon hiding?

As Mick and Ginny delve deeper into Gideon’s world, they are introduced to an unseemly cast of shady characters and pulled into a shadowy underworld replete with crooked contracts, blackmail and dirty deals. And Mick and Ginny aren’t the only ones looking for Gideon Pike. Jimmy Shinn, a ruthless Korean mobster, is hot on Gideon’s trail, and it is clear that chart hits aren’t necessarily the only hits that reign in this business.