Free/Bargain Mystery/Suspense/Thriller January 2014

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by Apache

I was thinking more of a separate forum under miscellaneous just like Introduce Yourself or Lounge but for many different threads for cooking related threads. One thread for everything cooking would quickly become unwieldy.
Apache

Does MR allow user created groups? I'd love to see one with other aspiring foodies

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by BelleZora

The Bone Orchard (The Gin Palace Trilogy #2) by Daniel Judson was free back in March, but if you missed it then you can pick it up today. It was first published by Bantam in 2002 and was a Barry Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original (2003) and Shamus Award Nominee for Best First PI Novel (2003).

CA
UK
US

Tried to check AU, but Google keeps directing me back to the US link.

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by Apache

I was thinking more of a separate forum under miscellaneous just like Introduce Yourself or Lounge but for many different threads for cooking related threads. One thread for everything cooking would quickly become unwieldy.
Apache

I think the fact that the one cooking related thread we have hasn't had a post in nine months probably speaks for itself.

[Apache]

One thread tends to get lost and most will not see it, especially once it drops off the first page.
Apache

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

A link for the UK mysteries at 84p is below

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_nr_...5&rnid=1025612

I don't know how long this offer is going to last, but it's still available today.

Having just finished the first one, I can recommend the Gil Cunningham novels by Pat McIntosh which are part of this offer.

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon - The Red Hot Empress (The Mystic Cafe) by Meredith Blevins

(Book 1 was free in December)

'Nudged by mother-in-law Madame Mina, Annie writes an article about Jimmy Qi, an Asian boy with the power to heal through music, which soon puts the youngster in danger.

Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of the rising star of San Francisco's Chinatown—including a shady evangelist, the FBI, the tongs and a man who talks to dolphins. After two suspicious deaths, Annie and Jimmy go on the lam, not knowing whom to trust or why. Leo Rosetti, Annie's lover, and her daughter, E.B., are also tossed into the intrigue, along with meddling world-famous twins who have taken a shine to Annie and Jimmy.'

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Red-Empr...redith+blevins

US
http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Empres...redith+blevins

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/The-Red-Emp...redith+blevins

CAN
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Red-Empress...redith+blevins

[VictoriaP]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I don't know how long this offer is going to last, but it's still available today.

Having just finished the first one, I can recommend the Gil Cunningham novels by Pat McIntosh which are part of this offer.

Sigh. Still way too high in the US, except for the most recent one (which also was very good, pick them up if you can get this UK deal.) The first is available through the Prime/Kindle owners' Lending Library as well; those who are members where this program is available can borrow the first in the series, The Harper's Quine, for free.

Kindle needs a good Gaelic dictionary for these though!

[piperclassique]

The Gil Cunningham books are excellent. I snagged all of them.... So much for the budget. BTW, there's not a lot of gaelic, but there is some scots dialect which is understandable form context. Some of it I remember from a Glasgow childhood.....

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - Gold Digger: A Klondike Mystery by Vicky Delaney

'Limited time offer. Book One of the Klondike Mystery Series by Vicky Delaney is available for download free of charge until February 4 2014.

It's the spring of 1898, and Dawson, Yukon Territory, is the most exciting town in North America. The great Klondike Gold Rush is in full swing and Fiona MacGillivray has crawled over the Chilkoot Pass determined to make her fortune as the owner of the Savoy dance hall. Provided, that is, that her twelve-year-old son, growing up much too fast for her liking; the former Glasgow street fighter who's now her business partner; a stern, handsome NWMP constable; an aging, love-struck ex-boxing champion; a wild assortment of headstrong dancers, croupiers, gamblers, madams without hearts of gold, bar hangers-on, cheechakos, and sourdoughs; and Fiona's own nimble-fingered past don't get to her first. And then there's the dead body on centre stage.'

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gold-Digger-...813412&sr=1-72

US
http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Digger-A-...813412&sr=1-72

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Gold-Digger...813412&sr=1-72

Canada
Not Free

[sqdancer]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free Today on Amazon UK - Gold Digger: A Klondike Mystery by Vicky Delaney

'Limited time offer. Book One of the Klondike Mystery Series by Vicky Delaney is available for download free of charge until February 4 2014.

It's the spring of 1898, and Dawson, Yukon Territory, is the most exciting town in North America. The great Klondike Gold Rush is in full swing and Fiona MacGillivray has crawled over the Chilkoot Pass determined to make her fortune as the owner of the Savoy dance hall. Provided, that is, that her twelve-year-old son, growing up much too fast for her liking; the former Glasgow street fighter who's now her business partner; a stern, handsome NWMP constable; an aging, love-struck ex-boxing champion; a wild assortment of headstrong dancers, croupiers, gamblers, madams without hearts of gold, bar hangers-on, cheechakos, and sourdoughs; and Fiona's own nimble-fingered past don't get to her first. And then there's the dead body on centre stage.'

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gold-Digger-...813412&sr=1-72

US
http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Digger-A-...813412&sr=1-72

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Gold-Digger...813412&sr=1-72

Canada
Not Free

This edition free at Amazon CA.

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - Bad Guys: A Gibbons and Tozzi Novel (Book 1) by Anthony Bruno

'Bad Guys, the first book in the Gibbons and Tozzi thriller series, introduces FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons, odd-couple partners and dedicated mob-busters. Hot-headed Tozzi goes renegade, and Gibbons is pulled out of retirement to stop him. Together they uncover a secret crime family headed by Richie Varga, a convicted mobster pulling the strings from the safety of the witness protection program. When Tozzi gets involved with Varga’s sexy ex, the fur really starts to fly.'

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Guys-Gib...86797&sr=1-388

US
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Guys-Gibbo...86797&sr=1-388

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Bad-Guys-Gi...86797&sr=1-388

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon - Catered to Death (A Midlife Crisis Mystery) by Marlo Hollinger

'Steve and Dee Dee Pearson enjoy that rare thing--a happy marriage. The only fly in their marital bliss is the fact that they are approaching retirement with only one pension (Steve's). Dee Dee hopes to remedy their financial situation by starting a catering business. Her first job is at Eden Academy, a private school staffed by teachers who loathe one another and a principal who is strongly lacking in principles, especially when it comes to his female employees. When the principal winds up dead after Dee Dee's luncheon, Dee Dee's paycheck is put on what looks like permanent hold. Dee Dee decides to help find out who murdered the principal so that she can be assured that her very first catering job will be paid in full. Dee Dee investigates all of the teachers at Eden Academy and discovers that any one of them could have finished off their boss. '


UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Catered-Deat...dp/B00FDUKUUW/

US
http://www.amazon.com/Catered-Death-...87175&sr=1-285

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Catered-Dea...87175&sr=1-285

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Catered-Death-M...87175&sr=1-285

[HarryT]

Your Amazon UK link for the above was wrong (it was the Amazon Australia link for the previous book). I've edited it.

[Mort1997]

Free Today on Amazon UK - Death Knock (An Inspector Jim Meldrum Thriller) by Frederic Lindsay

'Three hot days in a row and Edinburgh is going a little crazy.
Taking a short cut through a tough housing scheme, Detective Inspector Jim Meldrum finds himself caught up in an ambush by a mob of twelve-year-olds.
And when he arrives at a murder scene, it is with a lump gouged out of his skull and mild concussion.
But that is just the start of his trouble.
The victim is identified as the well-connected city businessman Brian Ashton.
Even with a brooding headache and a bad case of double vision, Meldrum can see this case is a minefield.
And that's before he meets the victim's red-headed widow.
Helped by local academic and crime profiler Henry Stanley, Meldrum begins to unravel the bizarre secrets surrounding more than one sudden death.
Can he catch the killer before death comes knocking again?
Or has Meldrum finally met his match?

'Death Knock' is a chilling crime thriller that is perfect for fans of Peter James and Peter Robinson.'

UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Knock-...87496&sr=1-165

Au
http://www.amazon.com.au/Death-Knock...87496&sr=1-165

Can
http://www.amazon.ca/Death-Knock-Ins...87496&sr=1-165

US (can't see price for this - link included anyway)
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Knock-In...ederic+lindsay

[Mort1997]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Your Amazon UK link for the above was wrong (it was the Amazon Australia link for the previous book). I've edited it.

Cheers - I thought I'd caught that - too much cut and paste