FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

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Free on Amazon UK (repeat)- Postman's Knock (Inspector Pitt Detective series Book 1) by J F Straker

Inspector Pitt has a serious problem on his hands. The postman in Grange Road has mysteriously vanished, and several of the residents who were anxiously awaiting his arrival are very distressed. Has he absconded with the mail, and some particularly important parcels? As Pitt begins his investigations, a darker alternative comes to light. Has the missing postman in fact been kidnapped, attacked by one resident with a long-standing grudge against postmen, or even murdered? And why had he delivered only some of the letters, and not completed his round? The vastly different, largely eccentric residents of Grange Road have one thing in common: they all seem reluctant to help the police with their inquiries, and to be hiding something.
Was there a conspiracy to get rid of the postman before he could make a certain delivery? Before any questions can be definitively answered, assault, blackmail and sudden death disturb the usual peace of Grange Road.

UK
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Free on Amazon UK (repeat)- The Second Jeopardy by Roger Ormerod

Four years ago, a young woman named Angela Reed was murdered. The prime suspect at the time, Harry Hodnutt, had jumped into her car after Charlie Braine, his partner in crime, drove off with the jewels from a shop they had just robbed. Charlie and his car were never found, while Harry insisted that he’d left Angela — alive — at the lay-by where her body was subsequently discovered. Though he was cleared of Angela’s murder, Harry spent four years inside for his involvement with the robbery. Now Harry is out, still haunted by Angela’s death, and a man who claims he was married to Angela is threatening Harry’s life. When Virginia Brent, the daughter of the Assistant Chief Constable, offers to help Harry find the truth behind Angela’s murder, Harry is sceptical, but ultimately accepts her assistance and the two form an unlikely partnership. Virginia claims a relationship with Angela Reed that drives her interest in the case; Harry is anxious to not only clear his name for good but to rid himself of the threat to his life. Together, Harry and Virginia delve back into Angela’s murder, following leads, digging up dirt on Harry’s old partners in crime and Angela’s double life, and seeking answers.
What happened to Charlie Braine and his car? What part does mysterious criminal Sean O’Loughlin play? Who really killed Angela Reed?

UK
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http://www.amazon.com/Second-Jeopard...ndeavour+press

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Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Second-Jeopardy...ndeavour+press

[sufue]

Gone the Next is the first in the Roy Ballard series by Ben Rehder. It's free right now at Amazon US, not sure why or for how long.

This title is also contained in the Die Laughing 2: Five More Comic Crime Novels box set, which has been a US Kindle Countdown $0.99 deal in the past, so if you have that, you don't need this. But WTH - it's free, and you don't have to separate the box set for this one...

link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009GPICOQ/

Spoiler:

Edgar Award finalist Ben Rehder's novels have made best-of-the-year lists in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Field & Stream.

GONE THE NEXT is the first novel in the Roy Ballard mystery series.

About GONE THE NEXT:

Meet Roy Ballard, freelance videographer with a knack for catching insurance cheats. He's working a routine case, complete with hours of tedious surveillance, when he sees something that shakes him to the core. There, with the subject, is a little blond girl wearing a pink top and denim shorts—the same outfit worn by Tracy Turner, a six-year-old abducted the day before. When the police are skeptical of Ballard's report—and with his history, who can blame them?—it's the beginning of the most important case of his life.

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Three of the four titles listed by SYKM in the Nadia Tesla series by Orest Stelmach are on sale at $1.99 at Kindle US right now. (The fourth is a prequel.)

The Boy from Reactor 4, #1
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008BU75D6

Spoiler:

Nadia’s memories of her father are not happy ones. An angry, secretive man, he died when she was thirteen, leaving his past shrouded in mystery. When a stranger claims to have known her father during his early years in Eastern Europe, she agrees to meet—only to watch the man shot dead on a city sidewalk. With his last breath, he whispers a cryptic clue, one that will propel Nadia on a high-stakes treasure hunt from New York to her ancestral homeland of Ukraine. There she meets an unlikely ally: Adam, a teenage hockey prodigy who honed his skills on the abandoned cooling ponds of Chernobyl. Physically and emotionally scarred by radiation syndrome, Adam possesses a secret that could change the world—if she can keep him alive long enough to do it. A twisting tale of greed, secrets, and lies, The Boy from Reactor 4 will keep readers guessing until the final heart-stopping page.

The Boy Who Stole from the Dead, #2
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CO9CRSS

Spoiler:

Bobby Kungenook, a mysterious seventeen-year-old hockey phenom from the Arctic Circle, is accused of murder in New York City. Bobby’s guardian, Nadia Tesla, knows his true identity. If his secret gets out, it could cost him his life, and sports journalist Lauren Ross is in hot pursuit of Bobby’s story. Where did the boy with the blazing speed and magical hands come from? Why has no one heard of him before?

Nadia’s certain the boy is innocent, but the police have a signed confession and an eyewitness. To discover the truth about that night in New York, Nadia must dig into the boy’s past. Her international investigation—in New York, London, and Ukraine—will make her an unwitting pawn in a deadly game and reignite her quest for a priceless treasure, one that could alter mankind forever.

The Boy Who Glowed in the Dark, #3
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GYE9HSC

Spoiler:

“The fate of the world depends on us.”

With one mysterious e-mail, Bobby Kungenook—the teenage hockey phenom living undercover and guarding part of a revolutionary scientific breakthrough—realizes someone else shares his secret. The sender summons Bobby from New York to a rendezvous in radioactive Japan. There, with the help of Bobby’s guardian, Nadia Tesla, the two will forever alter mankind’s destiny.

But dangerous people from Bobby’s haunted past are hot on his heels, determined to possess what could be the power of life and death. And when the enigmatic e-mail sender, Genesis II, is kidnapped after a bloody showdown on the scarred streets of Fukushima, Bobby must tap into his remarkable abilities to pursue the brutal captors into the forbidding reaches of Siberia—and the land where his journey began.

As the Nadia Tesla series races to its stunning conclusion on the frozen shores of Lake Baikal, the boy from reactor four will claim his fate and become a legend.

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Several Open Road Media titles are on sale for $1.99, and one (indicated) at $2.99. Note that Open Road tends to be couponable at Kobo, so if you have some Kobo coupon codes, and are okay with ePub, you can try there as well. Mostly first in series, and mostly sale repeats, but a few I hadn't seen on sale before.

An Owl Too Many is the eighth title in the Peter Shandy series by Charlotte MacLeod.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009S33L9C

Spoiler:

When a nocturnal hike turns deadly, Professor Peter Shandy takes an interest in owl spotting

Emory Emmerick comes to Balaclava Agricultural University as a scout for a television station. Although the faculty and students are hardly ready for prime time, Emmerick’s interest is in environmental programming—a subject that inspires even the driest Balaclava professor to wax poetic. In his search for material, Emmerick joins Peter Shandy and a few of his colleagues on the annual owl-count. And though the television producer’s loud mouth and heavy feet make him a dismal birdwatcher, none of the academics expect him to make a fatal blunder.

Chasing what appears to be a badly lost snowy owl, Emmerick stumbles into a trap that yanks him into a tree. By the time the professors reach him, he’s been stabbed to death. Discovering that the snowy owl was nothing more than a handful of feathers attached to a fishing pole, Shandy concludes that Emmerick was murdered. Plenty of people might like to kill a television producer, but which would-be killer had the gall to make the helpless Nyctea scandiaca an accomplice?

The Turret Room by Charlotte Armstrong is a non-series title.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00729PV2O

Spoiler:

A spurned husband confronts the family of the girl who threw him out

The walk from the mental hospital takes Harold Page three days. After two years inside, he cannot start his new life until he confronts the family who put him away. He was poor when he married Wendy Whitman, and their wealth still terrifies him. When their first child was born deaf, the Whitmans tricked Harold into a divorce, saying that he assaulted Wendy. She got the baby; he got a straitjacket. Now that he’s out he has come to say goodbye, but the Whitmans are not through with him yet.

The night before he arrives, Wendy’s mother is attacked by a man who she swears is Harold. Wendy’s brother vows to kill him, but Harold does not run. It is time to put the Whitmans in their place.

Rolling Thunder is the sixth in the John Ceepak mystery series by Chris Grabenstein. It's on sale at $2.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007RJ9J1S

Spoiler:

There’s more fireworks down the Jersey Shore in Chris Grabenstein’s sixth fast-paced John Ceepak mystery.

A prominent citizen suffers a heart attack on the opening day of a brand-new boardwalk roller coaster in the seedy seaside resort town Sea Haven, New Jersey. Initially ruled a tragic accident, it isn’t long before there are suspicious hints of foul play—especially after the corpse of a stunning young beach beauty is discovered.

Fortunately for mystery lovers, the straight-arrow cop John Ceepak and his wisecracking young partner Danny Boyle are on the case, a detective/sidekick duo critics have compared to Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.

The Cater Street Hangman is the first in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt historical mystery series by Anne Perry.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0052ZEI60

Spoiler:

The first book in Perry’s bestselling Victorian crime series, bringing together Inspector Thomas Pitt and Charlotte Ellison

Panic and fear strike the Ellison household when one of their own falls prey to the Cater Street murderer. While Mrs. Ellison and her three daughters are out, their maid becomes the third victim of a killer who strangles young women with cheese wire, leaving their swollen-faced bodies on the dark streets of this genteel neighborhood. Inspector Pitt, assigned to the case, must break through the walls of upper-class society to get at the truth. His in-depth investigation gradually peels away the proper veneer of the elite world, exposing secrets and desires until suspicion becomes more frightening than truth. Outspoken Charlotte Ellison, struggling to remain within the confining boundaries of Victorian manners, has no trouble expressing herself to the irritating policeman. As their relationship shifts from antagonistic sparring to a romantic connection, the socially inappropriate pair must solve the mystery before the hangman strikes again.

Rich with authentic period details, The Cater Street Hangman hooks readers from the moment the sparks first fly between Charlotte and Thomas.

A Morbid Taste for Bones is the first in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters (pen name for Edith Pargeter). What can I say...awesome series...one of my absolute favorites...
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LUZNVQO

Spoiler:

On an expedition to acquire a saint’s remains, Brother Cadfael instead finds intrigue and murder

It is 1137, and the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey wishes to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for the glory of his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to the saint’s final resting place in Wales, where he finds the villagers divided over the Benedictines’ quest.

When the leading opponent to moving the grave is shot dead with a mysterious arrow, some believe Winifred herself delivered the blow. Brother Cadfael knows that an earthly hand did the killing. But he doesn’t know that his plan to root out a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice, where the waves of sin may be scandal—or his own ruin.

The Transcendental Murder is the first in the Homer Kelly series by Jane Langton.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007OZ57VQ

Spoiler:

In an intellectual hamlet, century-old love letters give rise to murder
The citizens of Concord, Massachusetts, never tire of their heritage. For decades, the intellectuals of this little hamlet have continued endless debates about Concord’s favorite sons: Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and their contemporaries. Concord’s latter-day transcendental scholars are a strange bunch, but none is more peculiar than Homer Kelly, an expert on Emerson and on homicide. An old-fashioned murder is about to put both skills to the test.

At a meeting of the town’s intellectuals, Ernest Goss produces a cache of saucy love letters written by the men and women of the transcendentalist sect. Although Homer chortles at the idea that Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson might have had a fling, Goss insists the letters are real. He never gets a chance to prove it. Soon after he is found killed by a musket ball. The past may not be dead, but Goss certainly is.

Just Desserts is the first in the Savannah Reid series by G.A. McKevett.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J90ELMU

Spoiler:

Private detective Savannah Reid isn’t your average crime-fighting heroine. Middle-aged and overweight—at least by society’s skinny-winnie standards—Savannah has the audacity to love herself anyway. If there’s anything the sassy Dixie belle enjoys more than cooking soul-satisfying food for her friends and family, it’s nabbing bad guys and plopping them on the scales of Lady Justice. Having relocated to Southern California, this unconventional Georgia peach and the equally eccentric members of her Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency live to take a tasty bite out of crime in the sleepy, seaside town of San Carmelita.

This book started it all! First in the Savannah Reid Mysteries, JUST DESSERTS is pure vintage Savannah, recalling the days when she’s still a cop on the San Carmelita Police Force. But not for long. Savannah is determined to untangle a dark web of murder, dirty politics and ultimate betrayal to find out who killed a city councilwoman’s husband. Solving the case may cost her everything she holds dear…including her badge.

The Crocodile Bird is a non-series title by Ruth Rendell.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AG8G14A

Spoiler:

A young woman, sheltered from the outside world, comes to terms with her deluded, murderous mother—and what she must do to survive

When the police come to the door at the gatehouse of a remote British estate, sixteen-year-old Liza and her mother know that their lives are about to change forever. After all, Liza watched her mother kill a man—well, more than just one. Having lived as a virtual hermit on the estate, Liza knows nothing of the outside world, but she sets off to find her way with the help of a newly won lover. As she learns about those around her, she begins to discover herself—and just how alike she and her mother might be.

Rendell carefully unravels this tale of an obsessive bond between mother and daughter and of hope for a new life in a strange land.

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And a bunch of other random sale titles at Kindle US...a few are in the March monthly sale, but for most, not sure why or how long.

To Have and To Kill is the first in the Piper Donovan series by Mary Jane Clark. It's $0.99 right now.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003ZSHUR0

Spoiler:

“Clark has perfected the suspense novel.”
—Booklist

New York Times bestselling author and mystery writer par excellence, Mary Jane Clark kicks off her delicious new Wedding Cake mystery series with To Have and To Kill. A tasty departure from her thrillers featuring KEY News television anchor Eliza Blake (Dying for Mercy, It Only Takes a Moment), To Have and To Kill introduces readers to actress-turned-wedding cake decorator Piper Donovan, who discovers that the heat in the pastry kitchen can be hotter—and deadlier—that she ever imagined…and that her creative new enterprise is anything but a piece of cake. Foodies and fans of cable TV’s Amazing Wedding Cakes, as well as Faye Kellerman, Jayne Anne Krentz, and Diana Mott Davidson readers are going to eat this one up!

The Fencing Master is a non-series title by Arturo Perez-Reverte, who is also the author of the Captain Alatriste books. I haven't read this one, but I read and really liked The Flanders Panel a while back. The Fencing Master is $2.99 right now.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003SNKBKK

Spoiler:

The unstoppable thrust is the arcane fencing technique known only by Don Jaime—and the deadly maneuver that a beautiful young woman wants him to teach her. What begins as a rather bold request leads Don Jaime into the shadowy politics and violence of mid-nineteenth-century Madrid.

Still Waters is the first in the Sandhamn series by Viveca Sten. It's at $1.99 right now.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TUOH582

Spoiler:

On a hot July morning on Sweden’s idyllic vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing net, has washed ashore.

Police detective Thomas Andreasson is the first to arrive on the scene. Before long, he has identified the deceased as Krister Berggren, a bachelor from the mainland who has been missing for months. All signs point to an accident—until another brutalized corpse is found at the local bed-and-breakfast. But this time it is Berggren’s cousin, whom Thomas interviewed in Stockholm just days before.

As the island’s residents reel from the news, Thomas turns to his childhood friend, local lawyer Nora Linde. Together, they attempt to unravel the riddles left behind by these two mysterious outsiders—while trying to make sense of the difficult twists their own lives have taken since the shared summer days of their youth.

Last Rituals is another Nordic mystery, this one set in Iceland. It's the first in the Thora Gudmundsdottir series by Yrsa Sigurdardottir. I've read several of the books in this series and quite liked them. It's $3.99 right now.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000W9161G

Spoiler:

At a university in Reykjavík, the body of a young German student is discovered, his eyes cut out and strange symbols carved into his chest. Police waste no time in making an arrest, but the victim's family isn't convinced that the right man is in custody. They ask Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, an attorney and single mother of two, to investigate. It isn't long before Thóra and her associate, Matthew Reich, uncover the deceased student's obsession with Iceland's grisly history of torture, execution, and witch hunts. But there are very contemporary horrors hidden in the long, cold shadow of dark traditions. And for two suddenly endangered investigators, nothing is quite what it seems . . . and no one can be trusted.

The Hidden is a non-series title by Bill Pronzini. It's $1.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0045I6TMQ

Spoiler:

A series of seemingly random murders along a fifty-mile stretch of the
rugged northern California coast, committed by an unknown dubbed by the
media the Coastline Killer. A young couple with marital problems, Shelby
and Jay Macklin, who decide to spend the week between Christmas and New
Year's at a friend's remote coastal cottage. Two couples in a
neighboring home whose relationships are thick with festering menace. A
fierce winter storm that leads to a night of unrelenting terror. These
are the main ingredients in Bill Pronzini's chilling and twist-filled
tale about the hidden nature of crime and its motives.

Bleeding Heart Square is a non-series title by Andrew Taylor (author of the William Dougal series and a bunch of other series and books). It's $2.99
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001TKD4VW

Spoiler:

If Philippa Penhow hadn't gone to Bleeding Heart Square on that January day, you and perhaps everyone else might have lived happily ever after . . .

It's 1934, and the decaying London cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square is an unlikely place of refuge for aristocratic Lydia Langstone. But as she flees her abusive marriage, there is only one person she can turn to--the genteelly derelict Captain Ingleby-Lewis, currently lodging at Number 7.

However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts the decrepit building. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square? What is making struggling journalist Rory Wentwood so desperate to contact Miss Penhow?

And why are parcels of rotting hearts being sent to Joseph Serridge, the last person to see Miss Penhow alive?

Legend has it the devil once danced in Bleeding Heart Square--but is there now a new and sinister presence lurking in its shadows? Bleeding Heart Square is Andrew Taylor's most compelling mystery yet.

Collateral Damage is the sixth in the Matt Royal series by H. Terrell Griffin. It's $1.99
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005V1ZIY6

Spoiler:

The quiet beauty of Longboat Key is shattered when a young groom is shot to death on the beach the day after his wedding. His father is an old army buddy of Matt Royal, and Matt tries to soften the anguish of his friend by finding his son's murderer. Matt's search takes on added complexity when there appears to be a link between this murder and three seemingly unrelated murders that occurred on board a dinner cruise on Sarasota Bay the same day. Fortunately for Matt, his old buddies, Logan Hamilton and Jock Algren, show up to cover his back and to help investigate. But this case rekindles haunting events of Matt's past and incites a web of doubt, deception, and even suspicion, among the closest of friends. When Longboat Key detective, Jennifer Diane (J.B.) Duncan joins the investigation, Matt loses a little focus as he drifts toward more than just a professional relationship. But this distraction could cost lives when they encounter a shady and very dangerous cabal .

While Still We Live (per SYKM also pub as The Unconquerable) by Helen MacInnes is $0.99 right now. I'd love to pick up more Helen MacInnes titles, and clear off my DTB shelves, but they are mostly $7-ish - a ridiculous price (IMO) for backlist titles. But happy to see this one, and maybe they will cycle through on sale.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BE24UNG/

Spoiler:

English girl Sheila Matthews’ innocent holiday to Poland becomes a nightmare when the German Army invade in the summer of 1939. Working for the Polish underground as a double-agent, she plays a dangerous game, and is soon suspected by the Germans. Forced to flee to the forest and hunted by a ruthless German officer, she must rely on the dashing Captain Adam Wisniewski to help her home.

Rock with Wings is the second in Anne Hillerman's continuation of her father's (Tony Hillerman's) Leaphorn and Chee books. According to the blurb, this makes it the twentieth overall in the series - I didn't count. It's $0.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MMET87S

Spoiler:

Amazon Best Mystery of 2015

Navajo Tribal cops Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigate two perplexing cases in this exciting Southwestern mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Spider Woman’s Daughter.

Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them—one near Shiprock, and the other at iconic Monument Valley.

Chee follows a series of seemingly random and cryptic clues that lead to a missing woman, a coldblooded thug, and a mysterious mound of dirt and rocks that could be a gravesite. Bernie has her hands full managing the fallout from a drug bust gone wrong, uncovering the origins of a fire in the middle of nowhere, and looking into an ambitious solar energy development with long-ranging consequences for Navajo land.

Under the guidance of their mentor, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, Bernie and Chee will navigate unexpected obstacles and confront the greatest challenge yet to their skills, commitment, and courage.

Burglars Can't Be Choosers is the frequently on sale first title in Lawrence Block's fun Bernie Rhodenbarr/Burglar mystery series. It's $0.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1PJ8

Spoiler:

Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin Hood. (The poor, as Bernie would be the first to tell you, alas, have nothing worth stealing.)

He's not perfect, however; he occasionally makes mistakes. Like accepting a paid assignment from a total stranger to retrieve a particular item from a rich man's apartment. Like still being there when the cops arrive. Like having a freshly slain corpse lying in the next room, and no proof that Bernie isn't the killer.

Now he's really got his hands full, having to locate the true perpetrator while somehow eluding the police -- a dirty job indeed, but if Bernie doesn't do it, who will?

[Terisa de morgan]

I think The Fencing Master is better than The Flanders Panel, but it's more adventure and romance than the panel (and it's historical).

[cromag]

Originally Posted by sufue

Several Open Road Media titles are on sale for $1.99, and one (indicated) at $2.99. Note that Open Road tends to be couponable at Kobo, so if you have some Kobo coupon codes, and are okay with ePub, you can try there as well. Mostly first in series, and mostly sale repeats, but a few I hadn't seen on sale before.
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Rolling Thunder is the sixth in the John Ceepak mystery series by Chris Grabenstein. It's on sale at $2.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007RJ9J1S
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Thanks! I really like the Ceepak series! The first three books in the series seem to be permanently priced at $0.99 each, so it's not too expensive to get started if the series is new to you.

[GA Russell]

The Uncomplaining Corpses (Mike Shayne #3) - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WRYEQNY

*****

The Alvarez Journal - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00795X0ZQ

(1976 Edgar Award for Best First Novel)

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Uncomplaining Corpses (Mike Shayne #3) - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WRYEQNY

*****

The Alvarez Journal - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00795X0ZQ

(1976 Edgar Award for Best First Novel)

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a complaining corpse!

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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

I think The Fencing Master is better than The Flanders Panel, but it's more adventure and romance than the panel (and it's historical).

Thanks for the info! I did sort of get that (adventure and romance) from the very brief description, but SYKM lists it as a mystery, so I figured Fencing Master must at least have some mystery elements. In any case, I've got it pretty high up on my TBR list right now.

[melmac]

Originally Posted by sufue

Rolling Thunder is the sixth in the John Ceepak mystery series by Chris Grabenstein. It's on sale at $2.99.
link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007RJ9J1S

Originally Posted by cromag

Thanks! I really like the Ceepak series! The first three books in the series seem to be permanently priced at $0.99 each, so it's not too expensive to get started if the series is new to you.

Thanks I like the Ceepak series so picked up the 6th one I've already got the first few, hoping at some stage to have an audible coupon to use on the matching audiobook which is often reasonably priced

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A few US Kindle Countdown deals - several repeats and a couple I haven't seen before. And, as always, check Endeavour Press titles - they like to create new listings for updated titles (or at least, I presume they are updated titles!) rather than updating the existing listings, and so it may not show up if you already bought an earlier version.

Amber Nine is the third in the Boysie Oakes series by John Gardner. It's at $0.99 for about 1 1/2 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Amber-Nine-Joh...dp/B01417E15C/

Spoiler:

Just when Boysie Oakes thinks he is out of the liquidating business, he finds himself on the sunny shores of Lake Maggiore. His task? To make sure that a Member of Parliament breathes his last breath.

But a straightforward mission start to go awry when his mark turns up dead without Boysie lifting a finger.

Who killed him? And why?

It is only when he is introduced to a sadistic finishing school, run by the mysterious and dangerous Doctor Klara Thirel, that the mystery starts to unravel.

Surrounded by troubled girls galore, including a certain Petronella Witching, Boysie is pulled into the biggest espionage foul-up of the century.

With the help of Petronella, as well as a handful of self-important, and at times incompetent secret agents, Boysie dives into the mysteries behind the dead Member of Parliament, the sexually charged finishing school, and – most of all – who and what is behind the top-secret Amber Nine.

‘Amber Nine’ is the third in the series of highly acclaimed comic novels featuring the cowardly secret agent, Boysie Oakes. It is perfect for fans of classic British spy fiction, including Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, and Desmond Bagley.

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.

The Hard Detective is the first in HRF Keating's lesser known Harriet Martens series. It's at $0.99 for about 1 1/2 more days. Info in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3152015

Rx Alibi is the third in the Pharmacy series by Renee B. Horowitz. It's at $0.99 for about 2 1/4 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Alibi-Pharmacy.../dp/B0047T7DZA

Spoiler:

When Andrea Felder is murdered, pharmacist Ruthie Kantor Morris discovers a prescription drug the police have overlooked. Does it pinpoint the killer or is it a false lead? Suspects include the Arizona pharmacist's best friend, Denise, and the mysterious Tony.

The Dying Light is the fifth in the Sister Agnes series by Alison Joseph. It's at $0.99 for about 6 1/4 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Dying-Light-Si...dp/B014HI5RXU/

Spoiler:

Young and fiercely independent, Sister Agnes Bourdillon has an iron resolve. But her strength is pushed to its limit by her secondment to Silworth, a South London women’s prison.

As Agnes attempts to negotiate the network of bullies and victims, loyalties and hatreds, prisoners and jailers, she is fascinated by the often violent histories that lie behind each woman.

When the father of Cally Fisher, one of the most turbulent inmates, is shot dead, the chief suspect Cally’s boyfriend. The more Agnes discovers about his death, the more she is forced to confront the traumas which tainted her own early life.

It is not long before Agnes finds that she too has become entangled in a dark world that stretches further than the prison walls …

Superbly paced and stylistically assured, The Dying Heart [sic] is a crime thriller which penetrates to the very heart of urban existence.

Death in the Coverts appears to be a non-series title by Roderic Jeffries. It's at $0.99 for about 2 1/2 more days.
link: http://www.amazon.com/Death-Coverts-...dp/B013TATZOE/

Spoiler:

The wealthy Decker family have lived at Hurstley Place for hundreds of years.

The traditional pheasant shoot is still an annual event, although it is now financed and enjoyed by members of a syndicate.

Bill Rafferty, one of the syndicate members, desperately wants to be invited to dinner by the Deckers and accepted into their social circle.

He is disliked and sneered upon by the Deckers – but this turns far more sinister when Rafferty is found shot dead in the forest.

It is assumed he accidentally shot himself because of his clumsiness with a rifle – but when DI Doherty arrives on the scene he suspects foul play.

With the news that Rafferty had been blackmailing the Hecker estate, and rumours that his wife was having an affair, it seems the killing may have had a motive.

When a second person is shot dead in the woods, murder is beyond doubt.

Police think they’ve found the culprit – but have they captured an innocent man while the real killer gets his hands closer to the estate?

Death in the Coverts is a classic mystery story from a master story-teller.

Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926 and went to sea in 1943. Six years later he left that trade to become a lawyer. He again changed profession to become a writer. Since 1951, he has written over one hundred and sixty novels under his own name and several other pseudonyms. He began his career by writing books featuring his father’s character, Blackshirt, a popular detective whose adventures have appeared in print for many decades. In time Jeffries branched out and began to write a variety of mystery novels under his own name and several pen names, including Peter Alding and Jeffrey Ashford.

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Twelve of Georgette Heyer's mysteries have dropped to $4.99 at Amazon US. Per SYKM, this appears to be all of her mysteries.

Per eReaderIQ, many of these titles have been less expensive at various times in the past (possibly in connection with Sourcebooks apparently annual "Heyer Birthday" sales?), but still, this is not bad for books that were at $9.99 immediately previously.

I'm not up for doing 12 blurbs, but here are the titles, followed by a link that will be good as long as they stay between $4 and $5:

• Envious Casca
• Death in the Stocks
• Duplicate Death
• Detection Unlimited
• No Wind of Blame
• A Blunt Instrument
• Behold, Here's Poison
• They Found Him Dead
• Penhallow
• Why Shoot a Butler?
• Footsteps in the Dark
• The Unfinished Clue

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?sea...&price=400-500

[Purple Lady]

Originally Posted by sufue

Twelve of Georgette Heyer's mysteries have dropped to $4.99 at Amazon US. Per SYKM, this appears to be all of her mysteries.

Per eReaderIQ, many of these titles have been less expensive at various times in the past (possibly in connection with Sourcebooks apparently annual "Heyer Birthday" sales?), but still, this is not bad for books that were at $9.99 immediately previously.

I'm not up for doing 12 blurbs, but here are the titles, followed by a link that will be good as long as they stay between $4 and $5:

• Envious Casca
• Death in the Stocks
• Duplicate Death
• Detection Unlimited
• No Wind of Blame
• A Blunt Instrument
• Behold, Here's Poison
• They Found Him Dead
• Penhallow
• Why Shoot a Butler?
• Footsteps in the Dark
• The Unfinished Clue

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?sea...&price=400-500

How do you do a search for Kindle books by price? I don't see any choice for price on the advanced Kindle search here http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sv_kstor...ode=2735182011