Kindle Suspense/Thriller $2.00 or Less (US)

[NightBird]

The Silver Bear - Derek Haas- $1.76

Product Description

"The intense psychological portrait of a hitman--the anti-Jason Bourne--as he stalks his prey from Boston to LA. He wants you to know him, maybe even admire him, but only for his excellence in his craft. Perhaps he was even born for it. ""A natural killer,"" his mentor--a middleman named Vespucci--said he was. He proved it with his first professional hit: a Fifth Circuit Court judge in Boston, executed with a sheet of Saran Wrap in the stairwell of her own courthouse. He's proved his merit often, usually with a Glock semiautomatic, but he's improvised too, with his bare hands, the heel of a shoe, knives, even a sewing machine. He is the consummate assassin, at the top of his form, immune to the psychological strains of his chosen profession. He is what the Russians call a Silver Bear. He calls himself Columbus. It's the name Vespucci gave him, ten years ago, when he discovered a dark, new world of fences, clients, marks, jobs, jack. Not that his real name meant much to him anyway. He never knew his father or his mother, a prostitute who became dangerously involved back in the seventies with an earnest young congressman named Abe Mann, then a rising star in the Democratic Party. The magnetic Abe Mann has since become the Speaker of the House. He is currently running for the Democratic nomination in an exhausting presidential campaign, weaving his way across the country. Columbus is not far behind. But as he pieces together his past and prepares the seamless assassination of his mark, the criminal underworld he has always ruled begins unraveling violently around him."

http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Bear-No..._ys_ir_kinc_28


Ultimate Weapon - Chris Ryan $1.43

Product Description

Published for the first time in the U.S., international bestselling author and real-life SAS hero Chris Ryan brings nonstop battle action to this pulse-pounding military thriller set in Iraq.

About the Author

Chris Ryan joined the SAS in 1984. During his ten years in the elite squadron, he was involved in overt and covert operations, and was sniper team commander of the anti-terrorist team. During the Gulf War, Chris was the only member of an eight-man team to escape from Iraq. For this he was awarded the Military Medal. For his last two years he was selecting and training potential recruits for the SAS

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Weapo..._ys_ir_kinc_45


The Last Enemy- Grace Brophy $2.00

Product Description

Rita grew up in Brooklyn, the only child of a narcissistic Italian mother and the GI she married at the end of World War II. After her mother’s death, she quits her teaching job and descends upon her poor but aristocratic relatives, the Count and Countess Casati, in Assisi. It takes a while before they realize, to their chagrin, that Rita has come to stay. When the family assembles to watch the penitentes procession in the town square during Easter Week, a Casati tradition, Rita does not join them as planned. Her corpse is later found in the family mausoleum.

Alessandro Cenni, a commissario in the State Police of Umbria, and a handsome bachelor whose twin brother is about to become a bishop, must penetrate the secrets of the Casati family and their circle if he is to discover who killed Rita and why. But he is blocked by their powerful right-wing connections, and by a superior who prefers to arrest a scapegoat rather than risk political suicide. Aided by a loyal staff in his quest for that rarity—justice—he still must acknowledge that no one can defeat the last enemy, death itself.

Grace Brophy grew up in Queens, New York. She now divides her time between New York and Terni, a village in Umbria, where she lives with her husband, a Uruguayan artist. This is the first in the Commissario Cenni series of investigations set in Italy.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Enemy-Com...f=pd_rhf_p_t_2


The Risk of Infidelity Index -A Vincent Calvino Crime Novel -Christopher G. Moore
$1.76

Product Description

Christopher G. Moore's internationally-acclaimed, prize-winning series starring Vincent Calvino, disbarred American lawyer turned Bangkok P.I. finally comes to North America with The Risk of Infidelity Index, a gripping novel set in a superbly textured, masterfully rendered Bangkok. When his surveillance of a major drug piracy ring ends in definitive video evidence, it looks like Vincent Calvino's fortunes are about to turn. But when the client dies of a heart attack and Calvino finds the body of a murdered massage girl downstairs, the authorities get suspicious of the farang who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. To make matters worse, with the dead client unable to pay, Calvino is desperate and forced to take on a job he doesn't want: following husbands for jealous expat housewives. Featuring a brilliant cast of characters including a wealthy Thai celebrity protected by important political connections, a lawyer with perfect memory, a Shakespeare-quoting police colonel, and Calvino's loyal assistant, Ratana, The Risk of Infidelity Index is a thrilling read from an important name in literary crime fiction.

http://www.amazon.com/Risk-Infidelit..._ys_ir_kinc_30

[arcadata]

Here's a list of more Thrillers/ Mysteries under $2.00!

Wet Desert, a Novel by Gary Hansen ($0.99)

Product Description
Grant Stevens, a mid-level manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, only wanted to build dams. He never imagined he would be swept into a desperate race against an environmental terrorist bent on restoring the Colorado River by blowing up the dams. Left temporarily in charge of the Bureau, Grant must react when the first dam is attacked. He faces the unthinkable task of mitigating the massive flood roaring down the Colorado. The flood will eventually threaten the mighty Hoover Dam, and if Hoover fails, the other dams downstream will fall like dominos. Working with the FBI, Grant uses his engineering skills, river knowledge, and plenty of gut instinct in an attempt to outmaneuver the terrorist. The chase will lead all the way downstream to the Gulf of California in a cat and mouse game where the stakes are high and the potential for destruction is enormous.

Whitney Award Finalist. Compared to Tom Clancey by Meridian Magazine.

The Taster by Jonathan Hickman ($1.99)

Product Description
In a world of corruption and wickedness, a world where your next meal may be your last, there's only one man who can taste the difference between what you can eat and what will kill you. He's the super-sized, super-talented FBI agent whose specialty is food security. He's the bona fide card-carrying superhero unlike any other. He's the fat man with the super taste buds and the super immunity. He's Timothy Blanchard, the titular hero of The Taster. The Taster starts with a meal and a murder. A whirlwind of meals and murders follow. It's enough to make you ravenously hungry and keep you furiously turning pages.

THE TAKING OF THE KING by Nelson Adrian Blish ($1.99)

Product Description
The Soviet Union had fallen and the global balance of power had shifted in favor of the United States. The USS Martin Luther King is a U.S. Navy submarine capable of unprecedented speed and the Russian Federation is desperate for the technology. A Russian operative onboard the King is part of a plan to incapacitate the crew and deliver the submarine to the Russians. Two unarmed sailors are all that stand between loss of the King and the enemy.

Sweetie's Diamonds by Raymond Benson ($1.99)

Product Description
From the internationally-acclaimed former author of continuation James Bond novels and other works of suspense comes a new and exciting thriller.

Diane Boston lives with David, her Marfan syndrome-inflicted 13-year-old son, in a suburb of Chicago and teaches social studies at the high school. But David discovers her dark secret—she was once known as “Lucy Luv,” a porn star from the 1970s who mysteriously disappeared. Some suspected she’d been murdered. When this news inadvertently hits the streets, it causes chaos at Diane’s school and at home. It also attracts the attention of the West Coast porn czar who has ties with organized crime. Apparently when Lucy Luv disappeared, she took a cache of stolen diamonds with her.

This is the catalyst for a non-stop roller-coaster ride of suspense and mystery that involves the dark side of the adult film industry, the mob, kidnapping, and murder.

A Dirty Business by Joe Humphrey ($0.99)

Product Description
WHEN KEVIN BAILEY, a black, jobless twenty-something returns to New York City from a recent hermitage in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, he finds himself both broke and homeless. Armed with a degree in criminal justice, he immediately leans on an associate and former employer for a needed job referral. This leads to a position with the Frank Givens detective agency in Midtown. Bailey is hired for various reasons, three of which are the fact that he comes cheap, he's green enough to be taught, and his boss is swamped with cases. Frank Givens tosses Bailey a case that should have been fairly routine: a New York City socialite requires dirt on her son's fiancée based on her suspicions of gold digging.

Relocating Mia by Rebecca Lerwill ($0.99)

Product Description
Mia Trentino is the top relocating specialist at Worldmove, Inc., and her latest assignment is sending her to Siberia, Russia. But the new job comes with a new partner—a handsome threat to her career named Douglas Farland.

After a rocky start, the job is going well, and things begin to heat up between Mia and Douglas. Then, lies and secrets begin to surface that make Mia suspect her new partner might have a different agenda. What seemed like a simple relocation erupts into a cat-and-mouse game of intrigue full of drug smuggling, secret agents, and the Red Mafiya. Suddenly Mia’s in a fight for her life, and she may have to trust the one person who seems the most to blame.

Identity Crisis by Debbi Mack ($1.99)

Product Description
A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly when the alleged abuser is killed and Stephanie Ann “Sam” McRae’s client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft that has her running from the Mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with an offbeat private investigator to discover the truth about Melanie and her ex-boyfriend.

With her career and life on the line, Sam’s search takes her from the blue-collar Baltimore suburbs to the mansions of Gibson Island. Along the way, she learns that false identities can hide dark secrets, and those secrets can destroy lives.

Deadly Gamble: The First Charlie Parker Mystery by Connie Shelton ($1.49)

Product Description
In this debut mystery series novel, Charlie Parker, accountant and partner in an Albuquerque private investigation firm, is visited by her old school friend, Stacy North. Stacy's Rolex watch is missing and she begs Charlie to help locate it before her husband finds out. Things are complicated by the fact that Stacy had been seeing another man, Gary Detweiller, and he's the one she suspects of having stolen the watch. With a little detective work, Charlie retrieves the missing watch and all should be well. But three days later, Detweiller is murdered. All eyes turn to Stacy as the prime suspect.

Once again, Stacy begs Charlie's help in proving her innocence. As she begins to ask questions, Charlie learns that Detweiller's life was not as simple as first perceived and that any number of people had grievances against him. And before she can pinpoint the killer, her own life is in danger as well.

A SECOND CHANCE by John Paul Carinci ($1.99)

Product Description
Joe and Frank Luanturco, two brothers from Brooklyn New York, start a private investigation service. After Frank’s near death experience, the brothers decided the start of the investigation firm, a new field, is the future they both need.

Finally, the all-important job comes in. A Mrs. Sullivan’s granddaughter and son, Thomas and Tiffany had been kidnapped while in Ireland on a company convention. Joe and Frank decide to take on the dangerous case, enlisting the help of a well known psychic.

The rescue mission takes the brothers and three Irish locals through many parts of pristine Ireland, and into dangerous Northern Ireland, where they believe the Sullivans are being held. But the deadly mission goes terribly wrong.

Will the brothers survive? Will the father and daughter be alive? This action adventure will keep you guessing. You will fall in love with beautiful Ireland, as you cheer on Joe, Frank, and their new found friends in their rescue of a lifetime.

[koland]

This last list looks like mostly self-published books. I know that Wet Desert and Charlie Parker, Debbie Mack and most of the others are; I thought these were generally banished to the author self-promotion forum? At least for those that you haven't read yourself (but not written yourself or by a relative or best friend) and recommend due to content. If you are going to list every self-published book in the genre, or even a half-dozen a day, the forum soon won't contain anything else but (and you'll never run out of material, of course).

Also, not sure how big the "deals" on them are, since most have been these prices for months (or years, in a few cases). Again, there are thousands of self-published books at these prices and most of them are on Smashwords, as well, which is no doubt a better source for many here in the deals forum (since all ereaders are then supported).

[arcadata]

@Koland,

I don't know why you get so angry and nitpick everything I post here. I feel totally attacked. All the books are discounted to <$2.00, and I wouldn't know how long they have been discounted for. I thought they were interesting books. I guess it's up to the readers here to get the books or not. Jeez. If I'm doing something horribly wrong/ useless, please a mod let me know? Thanks.

[ATDrake]

In the case of Connie Shelton at least, she's one of those previously-established authors who's switched over to self-pubbing her former print backlist and releasing her newer works herself via CreateSpace.

Here's a listing for an old mass-market paperback copy of one of her books in said Charlie Parker series, published 1998 by a small press. And she's apparently included in this Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul collection from 2000.

Disclaimer: I do not know and have no association with this author, beyond having downloaded a couple of her books free from Smashwords during the Read an E-Book Week promotion. I have not gotten around to reading them yet and cannot speak as to their quality or lack thereof.

And while I wouldn't dismiss self-published work out of hand if it looked interesting, I do consider it a greater deal when it's a regularly-published and priced title that's discounted for whatever reason.

Even though I'm never tempted to buy any of these things, it just looks like more of a "bargain" to see something that one of the major imprints has knocked down from 9.99 to 2.99 in an attempt to get it to move, then to see an indie work which seems to be starting at the same price for the same reasons.

[koland]

Originally Posted by arcadata

@Koland,

I don't know why you get so angry and nitpick everything I post here. I feel totally attacked. All the books are discounted to <$2.00, and I wouldn't know how long they have been discounted for. I thought they were interesting books. I guess it's up to the readers here to get the books or not. Jeez. If I'm doing something horribly wrong/ useless, please a mod let me know? Thanks.

Not angry. Just a bit tired of the self-published over here and in the other area as well.

It's easy to tell that they aren't discounted -- look at the list price (of the digital, not the print over on Createspace). Not to mention several of these authors are here on the boards.

[arcadata]

Well, sorry for tiring you out with my posts.

I have in fact downloaded many of the books I posted, because I thought they were interesting and super cheap. And they do revert back to normal price (For example: the memoir 'The Forger' which I got for $1.43 went back to being $9.99).

So, question for the mods, am I not allowed to post these bargain books (for me) that I find? Is it considered spamming to post them? Because if I'm breaking the rules, then of course I won't post anymore.

[koland]

I wasn't objecting to The Forger - just that last bunch of all indie/self-published (the $0.99 and $1.99 priced ones).

[greencat]

Personally I'm happy to see them posted here (particularly if the poster has read them and are not promoting their own/friends/family members/pet budgie's book).

And I know a few established authors who are considering self publishing their back catalogue because they are out-of-print and they have the rights to do so because their contracts were drawn up before ebooks became a serious consideration.

It's going to be increasingly hard to tell the difference in the future. But I understand Koland's POV in wanting to keep what could be a tidal wave of "discounted" self-published stuff that no-one would ever want to read out of here though. Anyhow I'm off for a quiet game of Scrabble.

[koland]

Originally Posted by greencat

....Anyhow I'm off for a quiet game of Scrabble.

As was I. Got ganged up on at mom's house - had to play her on her Kindle and stepson on mine. They both got time to read in between turns, but I barely got thru the Sunday paper.

[SensualPoet]

Karen, I agree with your point -- I appreciate you bringing genuine deals on otherwise more expensive stuff. It's a deal if it's way cheaper than normal. Your sleuthing out great titles is MUCH appreciated.

But in a small voice, I would like to add that both Connie Shelton and Debbie Mack have written compelling, easy mysteries. I've read, and recommended, both. And, Shelton's Charlie Parker series is mainly $5+; so this first title is a bargain. (However, these "bargains" are regular price, too.)

[Williamlk]

Whew, I just came upon this thread and it looks like there was pretty good fight going on there for a while. Well, maybe not a fight- let's just call it a discusion

Anyway as far as suspense/thriller books that are under $2.00
I would check out D. Nathan Hillard. I read one of his short stories the other night and I really enjoyed it. Most of his shorts are on amazon for 99 cents I believe.

I've also become a fan of David Dalglish, but I think a lot of his stuff is a bit more expensive, He did have one book that was free for a while, not sure, it may still be.

Oh yeah, and my book is also under $2.00, but since some people seem to be getting annoyed with self promotion I won't mention it. ooops! lol