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Picked up both 'Blood Sacrifice' and 'Crooked Man'.
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Bargain @ $2.99 for today only (Dec 24th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, price matched in all the standard Canada & US stores, may or may not also be discounted elsewhere, etc.):
The Nicholas Linnear Novels: The Ninja, The Miko, & White Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader (ISFDB, SYKM, Wikipedia), an omnibus of #1-3 in his Nicholas Linnear series of martial arts action adventure crime suspense thrillers starring a half-Chinese, half-British crime fighter, which were apparently New York Times bestsellers in the 80s and 90s. These may have sfnal elements, as apparently Kobo files them under the Open Road Sci-Fi & Fantasy imprint, though that may perhaps be a misfile, although Van Lustbader does write fantasy as well and ISFDB considers #4-5 in the series sfnal enough to include in their database (apparently there's some Japanese mysticism involved?). As it turns out, this 1-day sale is to celebrate the author's birthday today ![]() The New York Times–bestselling series in one volume Born to a British army officer and a Chinese refugee, Nicholas Linnear grows up in Japan, where he falls in love with the nation’s culture, its history, and its deadliest martial arts. In The Ninja, Linnear quits his job abruptly when he feels himself yearning for the life he led in Japan. Searching for direction, he meets a striking beauty named Justine and is beginning to fall in love when something chilling draws him back into his past: the corpse of a coworker, murdered by a Japanese throwing star. There is a ninja loose in New York City, and as the body count rises, it becomes clear that people close to Linnear are being targeted. Only he has the skill to stop a twisted killer with a personal vendetta. In The Miko, Linnear vows revenge after his best friend dies under suspicious circumstances. But although he may look American, a childhood spent in the dojos of Japan taught Linnear that vengeance must never be hurried. He takes a job for the billionaire industrialist who ordered the murder, planning to befriend his target during a trip to Tokyo. But even for a modern-day ninja, there is such thing as too close for comfort. In White Ninja, a sadist haunts the back alleys and sex clubs of Tokyo, picking up women, horrifically mutilating them, and leaving behind a calling card written in blood: This could be your wife. He kills fearlessly, certain the police will never catch him. The only man who might stop this fiend is Nicholas Linnear, one of the country’s leading practitioners of ninjutsu. |
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Is that a sandwich?
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Whiskey Sour by JA Konrath is free at Amazon today.
http://smile.amazon.com/Whiskey-Sour...s=whiskey+sour |
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Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:
Golden Eagles by Australian novelist Robert Mitchell, a globe-trotting treasure hunt thriller originally out from Queensland-based small publisher Boolarong Press in 1992. Are the iron chests, chests filled with Golden Eagles – gold coins issued by the United States of America in the 1930’s and coveted the world over for their rarity – still on board the USS President Coolidge as she lies in her watery grave off the island of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu? Or were they removed soon after she sank in October 1942? Three people set sail from Townville, Australia, to seek those eagles out, to dive, to cut and force their way deep into the bowels of that once mighty passenger liner, but are they alone? Their yacht, the Belle, is tracked to the island by others determined to hijack the coins, regardless of the cost. The Coolidge lay quiet beneath the waves, and at peace. But that peace would never again be the same. Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: Hetman: Hard Kill by Alex Shaw, a short story in the Aidan Snow SAS thriller series which is published by Endeavour Press from which we've gotten a few of the novels previously free. An explosive SAS short story following Aidan Snow during his early days with the Regiment. Northern Ireland, November 1994. Seconded to ‘the Det’ - a Covert Intelligence & Security Unit, SAS troopers Aidan Snow and Paddy Fox must stop a breakaway terrorist cell from destroying the IRA ceasefire and stalling the Northern Ireland peace process. Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: Cloudburst by Ryne Douglas Pearson (SYKM), 1st in his Art Jefferson series of political action adventure thrillers starring the eponymous FBI agent, this one originally out from HarperCollins' William Morrow imprint in 1993. In Los Angeles, the president is killed in a brazen terrorist suicide attack. Halfway across the globe, an American airliner is hijacked by another group of Middle Eastern extremists and forced to make a brief stop in Libya. Events that are first seen as unconnected soon are proven to be part of an interconnected plan to strike at the heart of the United States. On opposite coasts, FBI Agent Art Jefferson and National Security Adviser Bud DiContino race to manage situations as they spiral toward disaster. With the hijacked airliner racing toward the United States, its cargo hold filled with what intelligence analysts believe is a nuclear weapon, the only hope for the passengers' lives comes in the form of an audacious rescue plan to be executed by the highly secretive Delta Force. From its pulse-pounding opening to its action-packed climax, Cloudburst grabs you and will not let go. Ranging from the violent assassination of the President on the streets of Los Angeles to covert action against terrorist havens in North Africa, from the halls of power in Washington to a highjacked airliner racing toward the heart of the United States, Cloudburst takes the reader on a riveting journey as FBI agents and elite counterterrorist units fight a desperate battle to save millions of innocents, and bring those responsible to justice. |
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UK Special: Dissolution by C. J. Sansom, just £1.49.
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Thanks for this, pdurrant! $10.99 as an ebook in the US, but available as a pbook at the public library!
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Dissolution by C.J. Sansom is free in Canada at Amazon.ca and also at Kobo.ca A few other books in the series are priced at $2.99 on Amazon.ca
Although the U.S. edition of Dissolution is eligible for Audible WfV discount pricing, unfortunately the Canadian version is not (I've run into this before with a Hachette book). |
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^ Dissolution is being price-matched to a particular promotion that started last week and thus free @ iTunes (available to Canadians, but not elsewhere, since it's out from Random House's Vintage Canada imprint).
![]() #2-5 in the series are also $2.99 each in Canada from multiple stores (and advertised in Kobo Canada's Boxing Week sale and on iTunes' Bestsellers Under $4.99, also). I hope they do well enough that RH Canada starts doing the freebie/promo price drops on some of their other series as well. X-link to the General/Literary Fiction megathread since Warren Adler's (Wikipedia) Fiona Fitzgerald political mystery series has had a few volumes previously offered free and if you got those, you might want to try the rest, and is also being adapted to TV again, and he has some thrillers as well: Bargain @ $1.99-$2.99 in the US as a time-limited holiday sale from Warren Adler (regularly $9.99), his backlist reprint novels, many originally published from the 70s-90s, couponable @ Kobo and can be found in the usual US retailers as well, if you have a preference. |
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Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:
The Judgment by TV tie-in writer Lee Goldberg (SYKM, Wikipedia), a revised and retitled edition of the 1st in his The Jury series of action/adventure thrillers co-written with Lewis Purdue (SYKM) under the joint pseudonym of Ian Ludlow and the original title of .357: Vigilante, out from Kensington's Pinnacle imprint in 1985, which is a rather complicated provenance to have. This is AN ALL-NEW EDITION, completely revised and reformatted for 2011... JUDGMENT is the classic action/adventure novel that was a runaway paperback sensation in the 1980s...and that skyrocked the career of Lee Goldberg, best-selling author of THE WALK, the MR. MONK novels, and THE DEAD MAN... This is the ultimate JUDGMENT...as it was originally meant to be. Brett Macklin was a freewheeling son of sunny California, a collector of vintage cars and a connoisseur of beautiful women. But when his father is murdered by a street gang, Macklin becomes something else--a deadly weapon against crime, a relentless vigilante who won't stop until he's wiped out the killers who have turned Los Angeles into a war zone. |
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Ticats win first!
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Tonight I have gone to Amazon US, and typed into the Kindle Store place "free kindle books hardboiled mystery" and this is what was returned:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st_re...rt=review-rank I believe the moderators will start new threads on Jan. 1, so I suppose that I should post this link again then. |
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32 books in the Saint series by Leslie Charteris are on sale at Amazon US for $1.99 as part of the "Build Your Kindle Library with Books for $1.99 Each" sale. These appear to be down from $3.99, which is given as the "digital list price" and which is also the price of the books in the series which aren't on sale.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=...ris&sort=price Like GA Russell above, I'll repost this in the new thread in the New Year, since it's good for most of January as well. |
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lost in my e-reader...
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Tony Dunbar and Julie Smith both regularly cycle their titles through US Kindle countdown and KDP select programs.
Right now Crime Czar by Dunbar and Crescent City Connection by Smith are both US Kindle Countdown deals: Crime Czar at $0.99 for about 1 1/2 more days, before going up to $2.99... link: http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Czar-Har.../dp/B00GCR75YE blurb: Spoiler:
Crescent City Connection is a $1.99 for about 2 1/2 more days before going to $2.99... link: http://www.amazon.com/Crescent-City-.../dp/B008DBK6QG blurb: Spoiler:
Smith also has two other titles at $0.99, not quite sure why or what sale these might be part of, but most of hers are normally $2.99, and these haven't been mentioned by anyone for a while, so I thought I'd list them as well: Tourist Trap by Julie Smith link: http://www.amazon.com/Tourist-Trap-R.../dp/B008YONBE6 blurb: Spoiler:
New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith link: http://www.amazon.com/New-Orleans-Mo.../dp/B007W97WJY blurb: Spoiler:
If you want to be patient, many of these will probably cycle through KDP Select and be free, but these aren't bad sale prices either... Last edited by sufue; 12-27-2014 at 05:02 PM. Reason: typo |
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Several books in the Jack Daniels series by JA Konrath are US Kindle Countdown deals at $0.99 for about 3 1/2 more days before going up to $3.99.
Bloody Mary, #2 in series link: http://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Mary-Th.../dp/B00BB62RZI blurb: Spoiler:
Rusty Nail, #3 in series link: http://www.amazon.com/Rusty-Nail-Thr.../dp/B00BBE4E5Q blurb: Spoiler:
Fuzzy Navel, #5 in series link: http://www.amazon.com/Fuzzy-Navel-Th.../dp/B00BB2E9E4 blurb: Spoiler:
Shot of Tequila, #7 link: http://www.amazon.com/Shot-Tequila-J.../dp/B00267T4H0 blurb: Spoiler:
The first in the series, Whiskey Sour, is also (still) free right now, per this post upthread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3010674 And information on the author is also available on this post upthread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=2950016 |
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A number of Elizabeth Peter's Amelia Peabody & Vicky Bliss mysteries are on for $2.63. It seems that there are 2 publishers - one that lists the books for $9-$11 and a second for $2.63.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...s%2Cnull%2C261 |
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