FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

High Marks for Murder is the first in the Bellehaven House series by Kate Kingsbury (written under pen name Rebecca Kent). It is free right now at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Marks-Murder-...dp/B01M0YTF14/

Spoiler:

The first book in the fabulous Bellehaven Mystery Series by Kate Kingsbury, the bestselling author of the Pennyfoot Hotel Mysteries!

Wacky students, intriguing mystery and a despairing ghost – it’s all in a day’s work at Bellehaven House.

It is the height of women’s suffrage in Edwardian England, and Meredith Llewellyn, headmistress of Bellehaven House Finishing School, has her hands full trying to turn rebellious, over-priviliged tomboys into graceful and accomplished young ladies. Her task is decidedly complicated by the ghosts of murdered victims who insist on her helping them bring their killers to justice. Watch the fun as Meredith does her best to keep her ghost-sleuthing a secret from her wayward charges, while trying to convince her fellow teachers that she’s not insane.

Lovers of Agatha Christie’s books will find much to enjoy in this tale of intrigue and laughter in an Edwardian English village, and Emily Brightwell fans will love this book’s offbeat characters and their intriguing adventures at a finishing school for young ladies.

HIGH MARKS FOR MURDER
When a teacher is killed by a falling tree branch, the local police constable rules it an accident. Meredith, however, suspects the branch had been sawn off. She’s further convinced when, much to her discomfort, the victim’s ghost confronts her, trying desperately to give her a message. Meredith has to enlist the help of her skeptical fellow teachers in order to unravel the clues and find her friend’s murderer.

[sufue]

The first two titles in Susanna Gregory's Thomas Chaloner series have dropped in price at Kindle and Kobo US.

A Conspiracy Of Violence, #1, $1.19
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Vi...dp/B00GW4QAWA/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-c...-of-violence-1

Spoiler:

The dour days of Cromwell are over. Charles II is well established at White Hall Palace, his mistress at hand in rooms over the Holbein bridge, the heads of some of the regicides on public display. London seethes with new energy, freed from the strictures of the Protectorate, but many of its inhabitants have lost their livelihoods. One is Thomas Chaloner, a reluctant spy for the feared Secretary of State, John Thurloe, and now returned from Holland in desperate need of employment. His erstwhile boss, knowing he has many enemies at court, recommends Thomas to Lord Clarendon, but in return demands that Thomas keep him informed of any plot against him. But what Thomas discovers is that Thurloe had sent another ex-employee to White Hall and he is dead, supposedly murdered by footpads near the Thames. Chaloner volunteers to investigate his killing: instead he is despatched to the Tower to unearth the gold buried by the last Governor. He discovers not treasure, but evidence that greed and self-interest are uppermost in men's minds whoever is in power, and that his life has no value to either side.

Blood on the Strand, #2, $2.39
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Strand-...dp/B00GW4QB0G/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/blood-on-the-strand-1

Spoiler:

Rebellion is in the air of London in the spring of 1663. Thomas Chaloner, spy for the King's intelligence service, has just returned from thwarting a planned revolt in Dublin, but soon realises that England's capital is no haven of peace. He is ordered to investigate the shooting of a beggar during a royal procession. He soon learns the man is no vagrant, but someone with links to the powerful Company of Barber-Surgeons. He master, the Earl of Clarendon, is locked in a deadly feud with the Earl of Bristol, and an innocent man is about to be hanged in Newgate. Chaloner is embroiled in a desperate race against time to protect Clarendon, to discover the true identity of the beggar's murderer, and to save a blameless man from the executioner's noose.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by sufue

P Is for Peril is the P-th in the Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Peril-Kinsey-...dp/B001D9T7ZQ/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/p-is-for-peril-2

Thanks! I had bought A-O for $1.99 each, a long while back. Now I have P also.

[sufue]

The first four titles in the George Gently series by Alan Hunter have dropped to $1.19 each at Kindle and Kobo US. The titles are:

• Gently Does It
• Gently by the Shore
• Gently Down the Stream
• Landed Gently

Kindle US link for all: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...price-asc-rank
Kobo US link for all: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?Qu...cmaxprice=2.00

Please also note that there is also an omnibus of these first four titles, the descriptively named George Gently Omnibus (Books 1-4), currently priced at $6.99. The individual titles on sale above are a better deal than the omnibus right now (to say nothing of not having to split them apart), but if you have a big TBR list, it may be worth a quick check to make sure you haven't already purchased the omnibus - it has been on sale in the past.

[Little.Egret]

Free

The Murder on the Enriqueta: A Golden Age Mystery by Molly Thynne


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KQ317RA/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01KQ317RA/

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01KQ317RA/

[sufue]

A Rare Benedictine, subtitled The Advent of Brother Cadfael, is a collection of three short stories, including a short intro by the author, that serve as a sort of prequel to the excellent Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters. It has dropped to $1.99 today at Kindle and Kobo US (couponable/VIPable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Rare-Benedict...dp/B00LUZNZIS/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-rare-benedictine

Spoiler:

Three vintage tales reveal how a former crusader became literature’s greatest mystery-solving monk

“Brother Cadfael sprang to life suddenly and unexpectedly when he was already approaching sixty, mature, experienced, fully armed and seventeen years tonsured.” So writes Ellis Peters in her introduction to A Rare Benedictine—three vintage tales of intrigue and treachery featuring the monastic sleuth who has become the best-loved ecclesiastical detective since Father Brown.

Although Cadfael has appeared in twenty novel-length chronicles, the story of his entry into the monastery at Shrewsbury has been known hitherto only to a few readers. Now his myriad fans can discover the chain of events that led him into the Benedictine Order.

[GA Russell]

Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Tril...dp/B000TO0TB2/

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Black Midnight by Graham Diamond

Spoiler:

Detective Sergeant Yvonne DiPalma is near the top of her career…

A member of the elite Terrorist Task Force, DiPalma will do anything to stop terrorism, even if it involves getting her hands dirty.

But when a bomb explodes on a train track, killing the driver and horribly wounding a police officer on board, DiPalma will be under more pressure than ever before.

Not only does she have to catch the bombers, but she has to do it before they strike again.

All they have to go on is a note, a note that promises another bomb in barely more than a week.

A note signed by someone calling themselves Armageddon.

DiPalma may have been prepared to get her hands dirty, but as the clock ticks down, she will be forced to do things she never would have imagined.

She must stop Armageddon… no matter what kind of person she has to become to do it.

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[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Thirty Fathoms Deep by Edward Ellsberg

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Bob Porter wants more from his life…

Stumbling across some aged parchment in a local bookshop, an idea strikes him.

The parchment is seemingly a journal that belonged to Don Jaime. The Captain of the sunken Santa Cruz.

The Santa Cruz was sunk in battle 350 years prior. But what of the treasure she was reportedly carrying?

Persuading his uncle to fund the search, he acquires a ship and crew to aid in his search.

Whilst most find this venture to be pointless and doomed to failure, Bob is determined that he will literally strike gold.

Weeks of searching the area indicated in the journal, he loses faith in his plan. Until one last tactic hooks the big fish.

Divers are deployed, plans are made and excavation begins.

Little does Bob know, this is not going to go as planned.

Each time the divers descend, they are risking their lives. Delicate equipment, storms, unforgiving terrain and a submerged wreck are sure to make this voyage dangerous.

But when his crew are acting suspiciously, Bob must wonder whether they are as trustworthy as originally thought.

Can Bob keep this salvage secret? If the Peruvian government hear of his find, they will claim ownership and he will lose it all.

With the nature of this trip kept secret until the wreckage was located, surely he has nothing to worry about?

But when company arrives, he soon realises that the government is the least of his worries.

Can Bob successfully salvage the hidden treasure from the depths of the sea? Will he be able to return home as a rich man?

Or will he and his crew perish to the secrets of the sea?

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[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - The Colour of Violence by Roderic Jefferies

(Previous mentioned by Sufue)

Spoiler:

1974, England.

George Armitage is an author who is trying to break out into the mainstream consciousness.

His books sell reasonably well, but he can’t piece together why they aren’t flying off the shelves.

Perhaps he hasn’t experienced enough of what he writes about?

He lives a modest, yet comfortable lifestyle, but his wife, Gwen has become disillusioned with their lack of wealth.

It doesn’t help that their lifestyle is one of glitzy parties and glamourous people, as she becomes jealous and wants for more from George.

As their marriage begins to fall apart more and more, George meets Patricia Broadbent, the wife of a wealthy, much older lawyer that George is friendly with.

They instantly hit it off.

Meanwhile, two particularly intimidating mobsters, Farnes and Weir are due for release in jail. Through the timid Brian Healey, they hear about a potential bank job worth at least a million.

However, on close inspection, the bank jobs appear near impossible, but who can turn down a million pounds?

As Farnes and Weir collect together the items they’ll need and a team for the job, George and Patricia’s relationship blossoms.

Soon, the love story becomes embroiled in the colour of violence when the gang of mobsters finally put their plan into action.

As everyone becomes involved, from police detectives, to Patricia’s worried husband, George must protect her in the only way he can…

Can he take the pain? The pressure? The legal implications?

He has no other choice if he is to save Patricia, as well as himself.

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Colour-Viol...ess+free+books

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[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Death Rains Down (Detective Ray Logue Book 1) by Kevin McManus

Spoiler:

Detective Ray Logue is a maverick.

He is stationed in Superintendent Jim Mulcahy’s police department, having never quite got over the death of his wife 8 years earlier.

Logue is now a hard-drinking and damaged cop, a loose cannon, a thorn in Mulcahy’s side, apt to take the law into his own hands – but he always gets results.

So when faced with the murder of an attractive Polish girl in Port Ard, Co Mayo during the week before Halloween and the subsequent chain of killings that follow, Logue stubbornly refuses to let go even when his Super takes him off the case.

Why on earth, Logue asks himself at the outset, would anyone want to kill Anna Pawalowski, a beautiful estate agent while she was out on a viewing?

And why did the mutilated body of her Polish boyfriend then end up being washed up on the shore?

Was she cheating on him? Did his love rival take revenge? Or are there much darker forces at play?

But as the body count begins to rise, Logue slowly senses he has stumbled into a sticky web of lies, cover-ups and deceit stretching from his own department all the way to the top level of political power.

From the law-enforcers to the law-makers, from respectable businessmen to Russian mobsters – a sinister hand is exercising an iron grip across the whole social order and woe betide any who dare to try to weaken it in any way.

In a world of corruption and double talk the only person Logue can trust is his sidekick, Detective Jack McGarry who pulls him back on track to bring whoever is responsible for the carnage to justice one way or another.

Logue, though, feels he has nothing more to lose and is hell bent on pursuing a malevolent force to the bitter end.

After a tumultuous showdown he believes he has been successful.

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Rains...ess+free+books

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[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Ashes and Bone (A DCI Marlin Thriller Book 1) by David McGlone

Spoiler:

Dr Aldous ‘Al’ Andrews is psychologist famous for a book he’s written on serial killers…

In 1998, he helped DCI Peter Marlin catch Mark Rennie, a serial killer, who targeted young women at the University of East London.

Now Dr Al spends his time in the company of prostitutes and drinking far too much.

Then one day, DCI Marlin reappears, needing help.

A series of murders is rocking London, and the only thing they have in common is how cleanly they have been executed.

Thinking he might get a book out of it, Andrews agrees to help.

Al is having a hard time putting a profile together due to the lack of clues.

At first it looks like there have been seven deaths in seven days, and he wonders if there is a connection to the religious meanings for each day.

It’s all he’s really got to share with Marlin.

Then he gets an email from a man called the Phantom. It brings back memories of the Phantom of Texarkana, a serial killer from 1946 who was never caught.

With the Phantom taunting him, now Dr Al is a target, and Marlin arranges for a patrol car to sit outside his home, where he is holed up with Lara, a prostitute who is now his girlfriend.

The body count rises as Al remains behind locked doors, meanwhile, something is not adding up.

Marlin doesn’t think the prostitutes who are being murdered are connected to the Phantom’s victims.

Neither does his girlfriend, Detective Sue Scott, who is becoming more and more convinced that besides being a criminalist, Dr Al might also be a criminal.

And when Lara’s roommate is murdered in her flat, the case comes close to home.

Dr Al’s fingerprints are at two murder scenes, but is someone trying to frame him, or is he a serial killer, too?

Marlin's not buying that and Sue Scott is certain the Phantom is not the only killer, but will either one be caught?

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ashes-Bone-...ess+free+books

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[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Four Stars For Danger by John Burke

Spoiler:

The path for the truth can be treacherous…

Writer Ellen Sawyer is travelling round Britain for her investigation into how un-escorted women are treated in hotels.

On the recommendation of a co-worker, Ellen visits a grand guest house in Wales, only to find it has shut its gates at the height of the season.

If that wasn’t unusual enough, a geologist is then found dead in a boat belonging to Commander David Parr – the owner of the establishment.

Soon it becomes apparent that something is very wrong as a conspiracy begins to unfold.

Ellen finds herself swept along in a dangerous adventure as she attempts to discover who is responsible and what has happened…but she is not alone in her desire for the truth…

UK
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[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Airship by Peter McAlan

Spoiler:

Tom Saxon is a drunk. A former star of the RAF, his glory days are over and tragedy has all but destroyed him.

It seems there is nothing left for Tom Saxon to contribute to the world.

On the other side of the Atlantic, however, people have other ideas.

A power struggle is under way; a struggle reminiscent of the past. Two companies — one Anglo-American, one French — are competing to bring the airship back into the mainstream of passenger and freight transport.

The challenges arising are not limited to aviation. The characters involved are strong and often ruthless. Decisions must be made and risks taken. Loves are lost and marriages broken in the bid to win the race — the race to build and launch the best, the greatest airship the world has ever seen.

Yet at least one person believes that the race should never take place, and that airships should never fly again.

When the Anglo-American airship pilot is killed in an air crash, the hunt is on for the rare individual who can replace him.

That man is Tom Saxon. Drunk, washed-up Tom Saxon.

With Tom on board, it seems that the race is on again.

But will Tom’s reliance on alcohol scupper it? Or will that prize fall to the ruthless but brilliant saboteur who is, it seems, operating from within Anglo-American and bent upon destroying their airship?

Meanwhile in France, will the reckless approach of Charles Renard, and his willingness to take risks with other people’s lives, have a similarly sabotaging effect on his own bid for glory?

It seems the answers will only be revealed when the giant airships fly.

And when they do, both Tom Saxon and Charles Renard find themselves at the centre of catastrophe.

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[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - Ending in Tears (Anna McColl Mystery Book 5) by Penny Kline

Spoiler:

It certainly wasn't the sort of case psychologist Anna McC'oll relished — taking over where the police had drawn a blank…

When schoolgirl Geena Robson goes missing, the police suspect there is a kidnapper on the loose.

But with no promising leads, the investigation moves slowly.

Then, soon after, there is an abduction attempt on twelve-year-old Sally Luckham. Could this be the break the police have been looking for?

Hopeful at the possibility of unlocking more clues, psychologist Anna McColl’s help is enlisted.

But Sally is struggling to remember anything about her assailant, except that she wore dark glasses and had shiny hair.

And as another young girl has recently gone missing — after last being seen climbing into a woman's car — Anna's help could prove a matter of life or death.

Though Sally's recollection of the event is still very sketchy, Anna finds herself drawn to the lonely young girl, for this is not the first shock to have befallen the family — only six months previously Sally's father Tom had died after a fall at Seeker Gorge, a death which those closest to the family believe was no accident…

But Tom seems to have led an almost saint-like existence, loved and admired by everyone he knew, so who could possibly want to murder him?

Anna begins her own investigation into Luckhams life — and death.

But very soon she believes she is being shadowed by a woman with very dark, very shiny hair…

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