FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2015

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More Endeavour Press US Kindle Countdown deals:

A Shroud for Delilah is the first is the Inspector David Webb series by Anthea Fraser. It's at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Shroud-Delilah...dp/B00P7SB2IE/

Spoiler:

Kate Romilly left her old life behind when she left her unfaithful husband.

Moving to the small town of Broadminster with her young son was a fresh start.

Closer to her best friend, with a good job, a new flat, it was a chance to start again.

But a killer is attacking divorcees...

At the scene of each crime, the name ‘Delilah’ is scrawled in lipstick on the victim’s mirror.

The danger is coming closer to home.

Kate starts receiving strange ‘gifts’, a dead pigeon, a dismembered moth - she fears she may be the next target

Chief Inspect Webb and Sergeant Jackson are in a race against time to unravel this seemingly impossible mystery and find the culprit before the next dead body found is Kate Romilly’s.

‘A Shroud for Delilah’ is a fast-paced crime novel featuring Anthea Fraser’s popular detective David Webb.

Praise for Anthea Fraser:

“A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read" - Booklist

“Ms Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall" - Sunday Times

'A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story' - Birmingham Post

'Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings' - Yorkshire Post

ANTHEA FRASER has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her other books include ‘Pretty Maids all in a Row’, ‘Eleven Who Went Up to Heaven’, The Ten Commandments’, ‘The Seven Stars’ and ‘One is One and All Alone’.

Presence of Mind is a non-series title by Anthea Fraser. It's at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Presence-Mind-...dp/B00QKEIQ56/

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Ann Tenby has always accepted her role as second best in her husband’s life.

Lance’s heart still belongs to his college sweetheart, dead these twenty years, and his love is now split between his career as an artist and Briony, Ann’s daughter from her first marriage.

Lance and Briony are inseparable, and Ann watches their relationship from the sidelines.

Briony starts to show an interest in Lance’s art, particularly Eternal Spring – the haunting painting that kick-started his brilliant career.

Briony can’t get enough of the painting, and sometimes spends hours gazing at it above the mantelpiece.

But there’s just something about it that Ann doesn’t like.

When Briony begins to have regular headaches and mysterious blackouts, Ann is naturally concerned.

But when Briony disappears for days and later has no memory of what happened, Ann suspects something might be seriously wrong with her daughter.

After exhausting every possibility with doctors, in desperation Ann turns to a psychiatrist. But he too is baffled by Briony’s strange symptoms.

As Briony’s condition worsens and puts a massive strain on Ann and Lance’s already fragile marriage, Ann must take matters into her own hands.

Will her daughter – and her marriage – get through this intact?

Or will Ann’s decision cost her everything she holds dear?

‘Presence of Mind’ is a haunting page-turner that delves into the darkest enigmas of psychiatry.

Praise for Anthea Fraser:

‘A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read’ – Booklist.

‘A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story’ - Birmingham Post.

‘Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings’ - Yorkshire Post.

ANTHEA FRASER has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her other books include ‘The Seven Stars’, ‘The Ten Commandments’ and ‘One is One and All Alone’.

Night and Silence is a non-series title by Aline Templeton. It's at $0.99 for about 4 1/2 more days before going up to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Night-Silence-...dp/B00HR3I58M/

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When David Cordiner marries Tessa he feels his life is starting all over again.

He gets a transfer to a small police station in mid Wales, leaving behind the stresses of inner-London policing, his previous marriage, and the son who doesn't want to see him anymore.

Tessa, an artist, will be able to paint from the cosy little cottage they share in a Welsh village.

But the rural idyll of life in a remote Welsh valley soon turns sour for the Cordiners. For David, life in the local police force is deathly dull after the exhilaration of working for the Met. For Tessa, the hostility of the local community is a daily torment.

Then a young nurse is found dead at a nearby beauty spot, her corpse strewn with wild flowers in some sick and sinister private ceremony.

Caught up in the challenge of a murder investigation, David misses the signs that danger is stalking his wife in their secluded cottage.

Imprisoned by fear and isolation, Tessa's efforts to escape her situation expose her to even more deadly danger, for the roots of the tragedy stretch far back into the past ...

And David and Tessa will soon learn to fear both the night and the silence that comes with it.

'Night and Silence' is a gripping mystery that will keep readers hooked from the first page to the last.

`Templeton's a considerable writer, both intelligent and intuitive' Literary Review

'Atmospheric eeriness . . . [and a] much-too-real feel' Oxford Times

'A creepy combination of detective and gothic' Sunday Post, Dundee

'A tense and atmospheric thriller, which builds up to a crescendo of superb suspense . . . An engrossing tale of tragedy' Bolton Evening News

Aline Templeton lives in Edinburgh with her husband, in a house with a balcony built by an astronomer to observe the stars over the beautiful city skyline. She has worked in education and broadcasting and has written numerous articles and stories for newspapers and magazines. Her books have been published in translation in several European countries as well as in the United States.

The Secret Houses is the second in the Secret Trilogy set by John Gardner. It's a repeat US Kindle Countdown deal, and is at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Houses-...dp/B00LJB84PC/

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John Gardner's The Secret Generations was acclaimed as one of the classic works of Cold War espionage fiction.

The Secret Houses is its explosive sequel.

Two families - the Railtons in Britain and the Farthings in America - are at the heart of a titanic political struggle, their fates intertwined in the secret world of Intelligence by blood, love, loyalty and betrayal.

The British Secret Intelligence Service and the American Office of Strategic Services are locked in a desperate struggle to destroy the war machine that threatens the future of the world - and once again the Railtons and the Farthings are drawn into the secret struggle.

Both families are intimately concerned in the fate of the Tarot resistance network, operated by Caspar Railton under the nose of the ruthless SS officer Hans-Dieter Klaubert, known as the Devil of Orléans. Caspar has recruited his nieces Caroline and Jo-Jo as undercover agents in France, and their disappearance coincided with the break-up of Tarot.

The truth about Tarot and the fate of Caroline and Jo-Jo is at the heart of this enthralling installment of an Intelligence saga that has been hailed on both sides of the Atlantic as a classic of espionage fiction.

‘Faultless construction and a good deal of narrative pace combine to make this a thoroughly enjoyable read’ – Books

‘A complex but sophisticated and rewarding sequel to The Secret Generations… a third Railton/Farthing saga seems assured and is welcome’ – Kirkus Reviews

‘An exciting spy story’ – Yorkshire Post

‘The suspense is well-portrayed both in the accounts of World War II and in the subsequent cold-war exploits’ – Booklist

Before coming an author of fiction in the early 1960’s John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer and a journalist. In all Gardner has fifty-four novels to his credit, including Maestro, which was the New York Times book of the year. He was also invited by Ian Fleming’s literary copyright holders to write a series of continuation James Bond novels, which proved to be so successful that instead of the contracted three books he went on to publish some fourteen titles, including Licence Renewed and Icebreaker. Having lived in the Republic of Ireland, the United States and the UK, John Gardner sadly died in August of 2007 having just completed his third novel in the Moriarty trilogy, Conan Doyle’s eponymous villain of the Sherlock Holmes series.

More Deaths Than One is the fourth in the Inspector Gil Mayo series by Marjorie Eccles. It's a repeat US Kindle Countdown deal, and is at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/More-Deaths-Th...dp/B00LU0UNBA/

Spoiler:

When Rupert Fleming’s death is presented as a suicide, Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo is immediately suspicious.

A freelance journalist, his corpse was found in his Porsche.

But his briefcase and portable typewriter had been taken.

The post-mortem examination reveals that Fleming had been drugged.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, this was no suicide.

Delving deeper into Fleming's life, Detective Inspector Mayo grows increasingly puzzled.

The dead man lived several separate lives: he had one wife in town and another in the country, yet still found time to frequent the town's amateur theatre—a hotbed of jealousies and intrigues where nothing is quite what it seems.

Methodically unravelling the tangled threads of Fleming's flamboyant and deceitful life, Mayo discovers that the lives of some people closely connected with him were touched by the murdered man.

What does the sister of the woman he loves know about Fleming? And what about the policewoman involved with the theatrical troupe?

Before Mayo can sort out the pieces of this intricate puzzle, the murderer strikes again, and Mayo realizes he must act swiftly before someone he cares about becomes the killer's next victim…

‘More Deaths than One’ is an expertly-plotted crime thriller that will keep readers gripped from the first page to the final twist.

Praise for Marjorie Eccles:

"This low-key murder mystery catches the flavor of life in a modern English small town...Eccles writes a pleasant and at times acerbically observant mystery." — Publishers Weekly

"...just enough chintz/old school ties/village fetes/ English eccentricities to entertain die-hard cozy readers." —Kirkus Reviews

"Pace and plot remain steadily engaging...A tidy package."—Library Journal

MARJORIE ECCLES lived for many years in the Midlands, where her crime novels are set. Her novels include ‘An Accidental Shroud’, ‘Killing Me Softly’, ‘A Death of Distinction’ and ‘A Species of Revenge’.

An Accidental Shroud is the seventh (according to the SYKM website) or eighth (according to the blurb) in the Inspector Gil Mayo by Marjorie Eccles. It's at $0.99 for about 4 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Shr...dp/B00LU0UO0K/

Spoiler:

When the body of local jeweller Nigel Fontenoy is discovered at the back entrance of a grimy pub Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo and Detective Inspector Abigail Moon believe it is an easy case.

His body was taken there in a truck belonging to his cousin's building site.

Surely he must be murderer?

After all, Fontenoy's cousin, Jake Wilding, was heavily in debt to the dead man and cannot account satisfactorily for his whereabouts on the night of the murder.

But it turns out the case is not what it seems.

Wilding finally names his alibi — his ex-wife who abandoned him and their baby son — and claims that Fontenoy was pressurizing him to act as a go-between with her for possession of some unnamed object... or information.

In her attempts to unravel the increasingly tangled web of family relationships, Abigail Moon comes to realize that in this mystery, as soon as one thing is gained, another is lost — including a priceless art treasure.

'An Accidental Shroud' is an expertly plotted detective mystery that is perfect for fans of Peter James and Ian Rankin.

Praise for Majorie Eccles:

‘Eccles produces smoothly flowing prose and an atmospheric setting’ - Publishers Weekly

‘A tidy plot’ - Mail on Sunday

‘Superior police procedural’ - Sunday Telegraph

MARJORIE ECCLES lived for many years in the Midlands, where her crime novels are set. ‘An Accidental Shroud’ is her eighth crime novel to feature Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo.

The House of Women is the third in the Chief Inspector Michael McKenna series by Alison Taylor. It's a repeat US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about 5 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/House-Women-Al...dp/B00IE69N6Y/

Spoiler:

Lonely, ageing and chronically ill, Ned Jones is found dead on sweltering summer afternoon in his rooms.

Everyone assumes he died of natural causes.

But after the post-mortem suggests otherwise, Detective Chief Inspector Michael McKenna and his team become involved.

In search of Ned's killer, McKenna visits the house of Edith Harris, where Ned lodged.

But fragile, neurotic Edith and her three enigmatic daughters – Annie, Mina and Phoebe – spring one surprise after another on McKenna.

Slowly, McKenna begins to unravel a story of scholarship and greed, deceit and twisted loyalties, where the sins of the past, as well as the present, are avenged on innocent and guilty alike…

'The House of Women' is a mesmerising crime thriller that is perfect for fans of Nicci French, Aline Templeton and Elizabeth George.

Praise for Alison Taylor

‘With her third novel, The House of Women, Alison Taylor confirms her place among the new stars of British crimewriting. A far from straightforward investigation into a suspicious death reveals a history of obsession and long-held hatred, with an intriguing cast of characters, which again includes the compassionate and personable DCI Michael McKenna . . . a complex and challenging book.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Careful, complex, intelligent . . . unusually for a detective story, it is the characterisation and the writing, even more than the plot, that hold the attention’ Guardian

‘This slow-paced thriller set in Wales turns the screw tightly on its characters. A murder investigation draws DCI McKenna into close contact with the victim’s family . . . Deep in the Bala hills a crumbling farmhouse yields up its secrets’ Mail on Sunday

‘With this dark and involving tale, Taylor stands up to be counted alongside the best of British crime writers today’ Ideal Home

‘Eerie and unforgettable’ Prima

‘Definitely an author to watch’ Yorkshire Post

‘Billed as a crime novel, Alison Taylor’s The House of Women is all that and more . . . McKenna’s quest for the truth is just one strand in Taylor’s narrative, which is also rich with the detail of an historical Welsh landscape and the world of letters . . . A novel teeming with intelligence’ Image

‘If you love Minette Walters, check out Taylor. She shows scary insight into human frailty in this gripping story’ Peterborough Evening Telegraph

‘Taylor unravels a tale of stupidity, greed, deceit, twisted loyalties and past sins which keeps the reader gripped until the end’ Newcastle Evening Chronicle

Alison Taylor has lived in North Wales for many years. She held senior childcare posts with the former Gwynedd County Council. She has been instrumental in exposing institutional child abuse, and in 1996 won the Campaign for Freedom of Information Award in this area. Her interests include classical and baroque music, art and writing.

Cold Black is a thriller-ish looking title by Alex Shaw. It's at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Black-Ale...dp/B00M4YR648/

Spoiler:

In Britain, MI6 operative Aidan Snow witnesses a ruthless murder.

Paddy Fox, a jaded ex-SAS soldier, foils the kidnap of a member of the Saudi Royal Family.

Russia is making offers - and demands - to Ukraine that cannot be refused.

In Saudi Arabia an al-Qaeda terror cell prepares for a mission.

How are all these events connected? And what is Cold Black?

Aidan Snow must fit the pieces of the puzzle together before it's too late...

Cold Black is a contemporary thriller, perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Chris Ryan and Tom Clancy.

Praise for Alex Shaw:

‘He won’t be stopped now. The book will become popular among Kyiv’s expats; some of them will even recognize themselves.’ - Kyiv Post

'A perfect blend of spy fiction and political thriller' - Matt Lynn, author of Search.

Alex Shaw spent the second half of the 1990s in Kyiv, Ukraine, teaching and running his own business consultancy before being head-hunted for a division of Siemens. The next few years saw him doing business for the company across the former USSR, the Middle East, and Africa.
He is a member of the International Thriller Writers organisation, the Crime Writers Association and is the author of the Aidan Snow SAS thrillers

Alex, his wife and their two sons divide their time between homes in Kyiv, Ukraine and Worthing, England. Alex can be contacted via his website www.alexshaw.com or follow him on twitter: @alexshawhetman

Ripped by Frederic Lindsay is a non-series title. It's at $0.99 for about 2 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Ripped-Frederi...dp/B00DM8QM7M/

Spoiler:

Jack the Ripper.

One of the most notorious serial killers of all time.

And one who has been copied many times.

But in the Scottish town of Moirhill, a killer is stalking a different prey.

Men are now the targets and not women.

The dates of the murders parallel those of Jack the Ripper’s murders, and as the days move towards that of his final crime, Detective Murray Wilson races to catch the killer before it is too late.

But as he is sucked into a world of politics, sex and murder Wilson starts to
realise the murderer might be closer to home than he suspected.

And it is not just 'Jack The Ripper's' past that is about to catch up with him.

Frederic Lindsay's book is a gripping crime thriller that uses the Ripper murders to create a chilling and unnerving study of the nature of evil.

'Ripped' is perfect for readers of Patricia Cornwell and Ian Rankin.

Frederic Lindsay was one of the most widely praised crime authors of the last two decades.

'Intelligent, entertaining, gripping and well-written.' - Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday.

'Lindsay can chill your soul' - Sarah Dunant, The Listener.

'Lindsay has used a genre often concerned with entertainment only to write a write a profoundly serious novel, as Chandler and Ross Macdonald did in California half a century ago.' - Alan Massie, The Scotsman.

'An intriguing and intelligent thriller' - Sunday Telegraph.

Frederic Lindsay was a novelist living in Edinburgh. His books include 'When The Stranger Came' and the Inspector Jim Meldrum series.

A Shot at Nothing is the third in the Philipa Lowe/Oliver Simpson series by Roger Ormerod. It's a repeat US Kindle Countdown deal, and is at $0.99 for about 6 1/2 more days, before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Shot-at-Nothin...dp/B00MI6BNAK/

Spoiler:

Philipa Lowe is looking for a new house.

But her friend Oliver does not approve, particularly of the one she most wants to see.

In spite of his reluctance, she goes ahead, and on first sight of it she is full of enthusiasm.

True, it is too big for her, true that she could barely afford it, but at once she falls in love with it.

Oliver's reluctance is soon explained, as this was the house where a murder took place.

Six years before, Clare Steadman was committed to prison for the murder of her husband.

Yet Philipa is not discouraged She is intrigued. When she discovers that Oliver himself was intimately involved in the case, she is fascinated.

It is when Oliver declares that he believes Clare to have been innocent that Philipa interests herself in the evidence — but then the facts come to light, and her innocence seems undeniable.

For how could Clare, with the gun room doors locked against her, and the French window jammed by her own efforts with a shotgun, have reached her husband, in order to make use of the second barrel?

And at what was the third shot fired? At nothing?

Philipa is determined to find out...even if it means risking her own life.

'A Shot at Nothing’ is a chilling mystery story that is perfect for fans of Nikki French and Peter Robinson.

Praise for Roger Ormerod:

‘The story gallops along with an irresistible momentum...always fascinating...the shape is near perfect. The characterisation is splendid, the situations dramatic and compelling, the style economic and energetic. What more can a book offer, or a reader ask?’ - Reginald Hill

"Eclectic, underrated Ormerod can be relied upon to come up with the startling goods" Sunday Times

"I am glad to announce that the detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod's skillful hands " The Spectator,

"Fast-moving, with well-orchestrated jiggery-pokery; not unlike an early Dick Francis in tone and method” Times Literary Supplement

Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was a prolific writer of ingenious and densely plotted crime novels - some 35 in all - which were published in the UK and the USA. He lived in Wolverhampton and amongst other things worked as a civil servant and as a Social Security inspector – backgrounds which he made full use of in his fiction, as he did with his hobbies of painting and photography.

Blue Heat is another thriller-ish looking title. It's by John Bray and is at $0.99 for about 2 and 1/2 more days before going to $3.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Heat-John...dp/B00ARBRQ3G/

Spoiler:

Dante Falconieri lives in the shadows, a man tasked with the dirtiest job in the police.

Trapping fellow cops on the take from crime lords.

Dante is the guardian who guards the guardians.

But who guards Dante?

Over the years he has grown cynical and disillusioned.

His careers has stalled, and he desperately want to get back to the narcotics stings that made him the best undercover man of the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency.

After years of busting fellow cops, he trusts nobody. His colleagues, his bosses, and their bosses in City Hall.

Everyone is corrupted.

Except Dante.

Until now.

His trophy girlfriend is demanding far more than he can afford on a cop's pay.

Is his devotion to justice about to crack? Can the guardian of the guardians be temped to cross the line...and join forces with the men he has spent his life trying to put behind bars?

'Blue Heat' is a hard-as-nails thriller written with the insider knowledge of an author who spent 17 years in the NYPD. It is brilliantly authentic and breathlessly exciting - a must read for fans of James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Vince Flynn.

'A exciting, full-throttle thriller. I loved it' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of 'Trade-Off'.

John Bray is a 17-year NYPD veteran, who retired as a lieutenant attorney prosecutor and took early retirement to become a crime lawyer before becoming a full-time author.

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And the first two in this series are US Kindle Countdown deals right now:

Dead Sober (originally pub as Death Will Get You Sober) is the first in the series at $0.99 for about 3 more days before going to $1.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Sober-Mys...dp/B00CK6FB56/

Spoiler:

Formerly titled DEATH WILL GET YOU SOBER, this is the FIRST book in the Bruce Kohler mystery series by Agatha- and Derringer- Award nominee Elizabeth Zelvin.

"A hell of a job ... Great characters and a wonderful voice.” -Crimespree Magazine

“Zelvin has managed to capture the reality of alcoholism and detox, with its black humor and tragedy. Her pictures of AA meetings are very realistic. Death Will Get You Sober will strike home with anyone familiar with alcoholism or the addictions field." -The AA Blog

SOBRIETY’S NOT FOR SISSIES. ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PHRASE “DEAD DRUNK” BECOMES LITERAL.

On Christmas Day, Bruce Kohler wakes up in detox on the Bowery in New York City. He realizes it’s time to change his life, but how can he stay sober without dying of boredom? Then homeless alcoholics begin to turn up dead, and one of these is Bruce’s friend Godfrey, a cynical aristocrat with a trust fund and some secrets.

Two old friends give Bruce a second chance and agree to help him with his investigation: his best friend, Jimmy, a computer genius and history buff who’s been in AA for years, and Jimmy’s girl friend Barbara, a counselor who sometimes crosses the line between helping and codependency.

Pretty soon, the suspects are piling up. Along with the laughs. But, witty as she is, Zelvin never loses her compassion for the painful process of recovery.

Fans of Parnell Hall and Tony Dunbar who enjoy a (virgin) cocktail of excellent writing, sly wit, and classic mystery will get a kick out of Bruce’s antics.

"A well-plotted mystery filled with believable characters and realistic situations … Without being maudlin, clichéd, or clinical, Zelvin delivers a poignant story." -Oline H. Cogdill, Sun-Sentinel

Dead Wrong (originally pub as Death Will Help You Leave Him) is the second in the series at $0.99 for about 1 more day before going to $1.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Wrong-Mys...dp/B00DDU77R8/

Spoiler:

DEAD WRONG (formerly titled DEATH WILL HELP YOU LEAVE HIM) is the SECOND novel in the Bruce Kohler mystery series by Agatha- and Derringer- Award nominee Elizabeth Zelvin.

A darkly funny mystery-meets-psychological-drama reminiscent of Gillian Flynn's best-selling thriller GONE GIRL.

"Zelvin’s second effort is even more addictive than her first. Death will help you leave him, but it won’t stop you from turning the pages.” -Reed Farrel Coleman, two-time Shamus award-winning author of Soul Patch

IF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL DON’T KILL YOU, LOVE ADDICTION JUST MIGHT DO THE JOB…

New Yorker Bruce Kohler, clean and sober for almost 10 months, is startled awake one rainy autumn night by a jolting phone call from his friend, Barbara. It seems her Al-Anon sponsee, Luz, came home to find her abusive boyfriend stabbed to death on the kitchen floor of her East Harlem apartment. Bruce and his best friend Jimmy (Barbara’s main squeeze) are curious, yet happy to leave it at a mob hit/drug deal gone bad. But Barbara, in classic codependent form, just can’t seem to mind her own business.

The trio takes a ride through the twists and turns of New York City in search of the killer, with Bruce all the while fielding booty calls mixed with pleas for help from his ex-wife Laura. But Laura’s hooked on Mac, who might be the death of her. Death Will Help You Leave Him is an over-the-top yet utterly believable depiction of mental illness and recovery, mixed in with a thrilling mystery that brings new meaning to the old adage “laughter is the best medicine.”

“Elizabeth Zelvin proves with this second outing that she is not only here to stay but is indeed the sober version of the Thin Man series. No higher praise than that—ask Nora or Nick. A wondrous read.” -Ken Bruen, Shamus award winner and Edgar finalist

“A heartbreaker of a novel. Through seamless prose and her lead series protagonist Bruce Kohler, Elizabeth Zelvin exposes the internal and external demons of recovering addicts and recovering lovers. Much more than a mere whodunit, Death Will Help You Leave Him is a whydunit and the ‘whys’ will haunt you long after the book is read.” -Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series.


“With humor and heart, Zelvin writes about the challenges of sobriety and the beat of New York City with impressive accuracy. Death Will Help You Leave Him is a terrific read." -Alafair Burke, author of Angel's Tip

Fans of Parnell Hall and Tony Dunbar (or any cozy mystery reader with a soft spot for humorous male sleuths) will love Bruce Kohler's wry musings and daring adventures.

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Free from the author('s republishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Dead in the Hamptons by Elizabeth Zelvin (SYKM), 3rd in her Bruce Kohler series of humorous mysteries starring the recovering Manhattan alcoholic, originally out from Five Star in 2012 under the title Death Will Extend Your Vacation.

THE ULTIMATE BEACH READ—SECRETS, LIES, SUNBURN, AND MURDER!

A clean and sober group house might not be everyone's idea of a dream vacation in the Hamptons, but the aptly named Deadhampton seems just about perfect for recovering alcoholic Bruce Kohler, his main man Jimmy, and BFF Barbara the World-Class co-dependent. (Meaning she simply cannot mind her own business.)

Even the neighbors seem kindred spirits. Down the road's a big house in the dunes owned by a clean and sober playboy with a motley crew of house guests in recovery from drug, love, and sex addictions, compulsive overeating, bulimia, and anorexia, not to mention good old-fashioned alcoholism.

BUT SOMEONE'S NOT ABSTAINING FROM MURDER...

All goes swimmingly, so to speak, until Deadhampton lives up to its name in more ways than one way when the tide washes in the body of Clea, the trio's beautiful housemate . "Murder?" say the cops. " Piffle! You people are seeing pink elephants."

But Clea was an investigative journalist whose passions included environmental issues and men—lots of men. Our intrepid three aren't about to let this one go. So who needs the old addictions? Secrets, lies, and danger are the new sex, booze, and drugs!

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An Open Window is the fourth in the Richard Patton mystery series by Roger Ormerod. It's free at Amazon/Kindle US for an unknown amount of time.

link: http://www.amazon.com/Open-Window-Ro.../dp/B00RXG7BUQ

Spoiler:

As Amelia Patton approaches a caravan parked in their usual spot, it explodes, killing the woman inside.

As she recovers in a hospital near the Welsh coast, she learns that she is the residual legatee in her uncle’s will.

As she cannot attend the reading herself, her husband, ex-Detective Inspector Richard Patton, drives to the Midlands on her behalf.

He finds that the word ‘residual’ can be extremely deceptive, and that the will is bound to provoke trouble between the children of Amelia’s eccentric uncle, Walter Mann, who died just two days after signing the new will.

Richard is intrigued by this: Walter had become a virtual recluse and locked himself away in his rooms.

But when he was found, having fallen from the third-story window and through the roof of his conservatory, the key for the door was on its chain around his neck.

Was it suicide? In which case—why?

Or if it was murder, as Patton believes, how had the culprit entered the room?

And why the open window?

Faced with enmity and suspicion, and strongly discouraged from intervening by the police, controversies over shares in the family business, and a drama of love and betrayal, all make this one of Richard’s most difficult cases yet—especially with him hundreds of miles away from the hospitalised Amelia, and wondering whether the caravan explosion was in fact intended for her…

'An Open Window' is a complex crime thriller from a master of the genre.

Praise for Roger Ormerod:

‘Roger Ormerod is an accomplished writer of traditional murder mysteries who has earned himself not only popular success but also the respect and admiration of his colleagues...This is a strongly characterised, intellectually teasing story with a nail-biting climax, which any crime fiction buff ought to relish.’ James Melville, Hampstead & Highgate Express.

Roger Ormerod is the author of over twenty novels. He was born in 1920 and left school at seventeen to join the Civil Service in which he spent most of his working life. He retired in 1970 and later worked as a postman and in the production control department of a heavy industry factory. He lives in Wolverhampton. His other novels include ‘A Shot At Nothing’, ‘Third Time Fatal’, ‘The Key to the Case’ and ‘The Night She Died’.

[sufue]

Hot Seat is the second in the Aidy Westlake mystery series by Simon Wood. It's a US Kindle Countdown deal, at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days before going to $2.99. (The first one, Did Not Finish, was also a Countdown deal a while ago.)

link: http://www.amazon.com/Seat-Aidy-West...dp/B00I6URNDI/

Spoiler:

Things are looking good for Aidy Westlake following events from Did Not Finish. He's Pit Lane magazine's Young Driver of the Year, which has earned him a drive in the European Saloon Car Championship. But his good fortune ends at a race car show when he discovers Jason Gates, a mechanic from a rival team, with his throat cut. The murder sets off a disturbing chain reaction - someone is breaking the rules in the ranks of saloon car racing, on and off the track.

What They Are Saying About Hot Seat:

“Watch Aidy get into one jam after the next.”
— Kirkus

"You can't stop reading.”
— Booklist

“Racing scenes enliven the action as Aidy tries to extricate himself from trouble by trapping a killer.”
— Publishers Weekly

"High octane thrills all the way, with an especially exciting grand finale!”
— Book 'Em Mysteries

[Little.Egret]

Nisyros Publishers reprints

King of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure by Talbot Mundy

Intrigue, romance, and mystery

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) (April 23, 1879 - August 5, 1940) was an English writer. He also wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. Many of his novels, including his first novel Rung Ho!, and his most famous work King of the Khyber Rifles, are set in India during the British Raj in which the loyal British officers encounter ancient Indian mysticism. The novels portray the citizens of Imperial India as enigmatic, romantic and powerful. His British characters have many encounters with the mysterious Thugee Cults.

Jimgrim and Allah's Peace by Talbot Mundy

Told in the East by Talbot Mundy

The Subterranean Brotherhood by Talbot Mundy

Guns of the Gods: A Story of Yasmini's Youth by Talbot Mundy

Rung Ho! by Talbot Mundy

Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

and one from Waxkeep

Affair in Arabia by Talbot Mundy


http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...r=talbot+mundy

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...r=talbot+mundy
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...r=talbot+mundy

[Little.Egret]

Winds of the World by Talbot Mundy

Caesar Dies by Talbot Mundy



And Sanders of the River

Bones in London by Edgar Wallace

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SUEO6I0/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00SUEO6I0/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00SUEO6I0/

[Wearever]

Thanks Sufue ! for the Endeavor Press selection, Some good books once again.

Also many thanks to everyone for all the good deals here. !

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ $2.99 (maybe) for Canadians only, probably for today only (Feb 19th) from Random House Canada's Vintage Canada imprint (non-couponable):

Headhunters by Norwegian author Jo Nesbø (SYKM, Wikipedia), his excellent standalone crime thriller which also has a very good film adaptation (Wikipedia, Roger Ebert 3½ ★ review) which I recommend, is the Kobo Daily Deal for $2.99 CAD.

Or at least, it should be, since they advertise it at that on the front-page, but it's actually $4.99 when added to the cart and taken to checkout.

I did manage to get it at the sale price by contacting Kobo Customer Service, who agreed with my plan to buy it, send in a screenshot of the promo price advert, and they would give me a store credit for the difference.

Amazon does have it for $2.99 CAD (or the USD equivalent) outright, but only if you've an account set to a Canadian address. ETA: Amazon.ca linkage for Canadians who actually do use the CA Kindle store.

Nevertheless, even with the hoop-jumping, I'm quite happy with my purchase just now, as it was one of my favourite book/film combos of last year and I've been waiting for this to price-drop.

WINNER 2008 – Norwegian Book Club Prize for Best Novel of the Year
FINALIST 2008 – Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize for Best Novel of the Year

A fantastic standalone thriller from the #1 bestselling author Jo Nesbo.

Roger Brown has it all: Norway's most successful headhunter, he is married to a beautiful gallery owner and owns a magnificent house. But he's also a highly accomplished art thief. At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Not only is Greve the perfect candidate for a position that Brown is recruiting for; he is also in possession of The Calydonian Boar Hunt by Rubens, one of the most sought-after paintings in modern art history. Roger sees his chance to become financially independent, and starts planning his biggest theft ever. But soon, he runs into trouble--and it's not financial problems that are threatening to knock him over this time...

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Flesh & Bones by fellow MR member author and Edgar Award-nominee Paul Levine (SYKM, Wikipedia), 7th in his Jake Lassiter series of legal thrillers starring the eponymous Miami-based ex-footballer (rugby, not soccer) turned lawyer, originally out from HarperCollins' William Morrow imprint in 1997.

"I was sitting at the end of the bar sipping single-malt Scotch when I spotted the tall blond woman with the large green eyes and the small gray gun."

The next thing Jake Lassiter knows, the woman pumps three bullets into the man on the next barstool. Lassiter, the linebacker-turned-lawyer, has a new client. She's a stunning South Beach model; the dead man is her wealthy father; and the murder case is a slam dunk for the prosecution. Or is it?

Just a reminder that Levine also generously offers 2 more of his backlist titles free as long-term samplers @ Smashwords (and thence price-matched in many other outlets by now): the Macavity Award-finalist 1st in his Solomon & Lord series of legal thrillers (the one that netted him the Edgar nom), and a short story mini-collection.

X-link to the SF/Fantasy megathread for Gentle Readers who like techno-thrillers but otherwise don't care for sf/f:

Free from the author('s republishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon: Toxin by Rob Swigart, a bio-medical disaster-prevention action adventure starring a molecular biologist and his Hawaiian police lieutenant buddy, originally out from St. Martin's Press.

[Fbone]

Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Bernie Rhodenbarr #1) by Lawrence Block is $1.99 at all retailers. HarperCollins 1977. GR 3.81

http://smile.amazon.com/Burglars-Can...lawrence+block
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eb...-t-be-choosers

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Wipeout & Hanging Ten in Paris by Chip Hughes, an omnibus edition of the 2nd novel and apparently a short/novella in his Surfing Detective series starring a Hawaiian PI, the novel originally out from Hawaiian local interest specialty press Island Heritage Publishing in 2007.

Ka Palapala Po'okela - Excellence in Literature - Honoree

Two surfers are lost in separate incidents half way around the world . . .

In WIPEOUT! when a big-wave rider vanishes under a liquid mountain at Waimea Bay on O'ahu and his life-insurance company refuses to pay, Kai Cooke is hired by the surfer's pregnant wife, Summer McDahl, to prove he's dead. Did Corky McDahl expire in the boiling soup or pull off the most daring skip-trace ever? Finding the answer leads the PI on a twisted treasure hunt involving the islands' big-wave riding and drug trafficking scenes, plus the competing claims of Summer and another woman who also claims to be Corky's wife.

In HANGING TEN IN PARIS Kai investigates the apparent suicide of surfer and study-abroad student, Ryan Song, found hanging in his room in Paris. With scant knowledge of French or France, Kai tries to piece together what happened in the City of Light, without ever leaving the islands. He interviews a half dozen students and their professor who had accompanied Ryan abroad and finds that while their stories tally, none sounds like the truth. What are they hiding? Did Ryan really hang himself, or did some dark motive among them cause his death?

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Bloody Mary by self-publishing champion J. A. Konrath aka Jack Kilborn (SYKM, Wikipedia), 2nd in his Jack Daniels series of Chicago-set police procedurals, originally out from Disney's Hyperion imprint in 2005.

Start with a tough but vulnerable Chicago cop. Add a hyperactive cat, an ailing mother, a jealous boyfriend, a high-maintenance ex-husband, and a partner in the throes of a mid-life crisis.

Stir in a psychopath littering the city with body parts. Mix with equal parts humor and suspense, and enjoy Bloody Mary--the second novel in the funny, frightening world of Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels.

Join Jack as she struggles to repair her train wreck of a personal life while tracking down and convicting one of the scariest serial killers in recent memory--a killer for whom getting caught is only the beginning...

X-link to the SF/Fantasy megathread for the Gentle Readers who like 22nd century police procedurals:

Free from the small press republisher via KDP Select @ Amazon: The Doppelgänger Gambit by Lee Killough, a 22nd century police procedural murder mystery originally out from Del Rey in 1979

[BearMountainBooks]

I picked up book 3 by Chip Huges (Surfing Detective) when it was free. I LOVED the setting (Hawaii) and the writing and the plot. Wasn't really connecting to the main tho. I stopped about halfway through because that particular mystery is dealing with abuse of dogs/puppy mills.

I now have a hankering for a book set in Hawaii that is as well-written, but with a main who has a bit more...something. Anything. Sigh.

[sufue]

Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks

I picked up book 3 by Chip Huges (Surfing Detective) when it was free. I LOVED the setting (Hawaii) and the writing and the plot. Wasn't really connecting to the main tho. I stopped about halfway through because that particular mystery is dealing with abuse of dogs/puppy mills.

I now have a hankering for a book set in Hawaii that is as well-written, but with a main who has a bit more...something. Anything. Sigh.

Not sure what style exactly you like, but Charles Knief did a short four book more-or-less hard-boiled series set in Hawaii which I kind of like...unfortunately they are a big publisher and so rather expensive (IMO) for backlist titles.

Also Juanita Sheridan's books, but these are Rue Morgue titles, and thus not available in ebook...unless you buy DTB and scan them yourself...

[BearMountainBooks]

Originally Posted by sufue

Not sure what style exactly you like, but Charles Knief did a short four book more-or-less hard-boiled series set in Hawaii which I kind of like...unfortunately they are a big publisher and so rather expensive (IMO) for backlist titles.

Also Juanita Sheridan's books, but these are Rue Morgue titles, and thus not available in ebook...unless you buy DTB and scan them yourself...

Thanks. I'll check them out. I still read plenty of DTBs and maybe the Charles Knief will be at the library...

[mitford13]

Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks

Thanks. I'll check them out. I still read plenty of DTBs and maybe the Charles Knief will be at the library...

I've heard good things about indie author Toby Neal's Lei Crime series. Been picking them up when they're discounted/free, but still haven't read...
Blood Orchids is the first.

I did read one by Victoria Kneubuhl, set in the 30's that was interesting from a historic background: Murder Casts a Shadow
http://smile.amazon.com/Murder-Shado...dp/B007ZQ64PM/