Free/Bargain Suspense/Mystery/Thriller May 2013

[pdurrant]

A thread for May.

We point out free and bargain Suspense/Mystery/Thriller titles to each other. Please don't post any self-published books, and please do a search before posting to avoid duplicates.

Be aware that many freebies are only free for a day, so grab them fast. Enjoy!

[murraypaul]

Daily deal on Amazon UK is four mysteries by Suzette A Hill for 99p each. (The deal is for books 2-5 of a series. Book 1 is also 99p.)

A Load of Old Bones (1)

The very first book in a delightful cosy crime series that has received warm praise.

Bones in the Belfrey (2)

A vicar needs the help of his pets to stay out of prison. Francis Oughterard, the vicar of Molehill, has been tormented by anxiety since he accidentally strangled one of his parishioners (A Load of Old Bones, 2008). He'd be languishing in jail if not for the timely aid of his clever cat Maurice and his playful dog Bouncer, who managed to remove evidence from the crime scene that could have led to their master's arrest. Now, however, he's being gently blackmailed by Nicholas Ingaza, the old college pal who provided his alibi. Nicholas wants the vicar to house some stolen paintings. A comedy of errors ensues as the frantic vicar moves them from the belfry to his sister's house to the church crypt. Things go from bad to worse when one of the paintings turns up at a church fundraiser and is purchased by a parishioner. Fortunately for the vicar, the buyer's love of art is blissfully unaccompanied by any knowledge of art. The ever more nervous vicar tries to get the paintings out of his possession before the police discover that he's involved in a crime yet again. Maurice and Bouncer steal the show in a mildly amusing tale that lacks any real mystery. --Kirkus Reviews

Bone Idle (3)

So far eluding arrest (but with fears of imminent exposure), he is in the grip of his blackmailing pal, the shady Nicholas Ingaza who forces him to steal a valuable figurine of a prancing pig from collector Claude Blenkinsop.

Naturally the project backfires and the hapless vicar is plunged into further skulduggery, during which someone is murdered. The Reverend’s despairing efforts to distance himself from the crime and additional police interest lead to embarrassing complications both for himself and his bishop, the pompous Horace Clinker.

Things come to a head when Oughterard’s own life is put at risk by a crazed and menacing character called Victor Crumpemeyere. Once again it is up to his world-weary cat, Maurice and intrepid mongrel, Bouncer, to save the Reverend’s bacon.

Bones in High Places (4)

Foreign parts and fresh imbroglios! This time the Rev Francis Oughterard, persuaded by blackmailing Nicholas Ingaza, journeys to the French Auvergne engaged on yet another project of dubious kind and painful embarrassment. Pursued by murderous thugs and ensnared in the posturings of a cranky religious sect, Francis and his new companions – plus stowaways Maurice and Bouncer – blunder their way through a network of absurd and perilous escapades which temporarily, at any rate, distract the vicar from his own dark secret…

A Bedlam of Bones (5)

More blackmail, mayhem and murder for the humbug-crunching vicar, his dog, and the cat.

[mitford13]

Free on Amazon, previously published by Andre Deutsch:

Collateral Damage by Colin Smith

Amazon UK

Hans Koller is a young German obsessed by his father’s Nazi past.
He is also a leading member of an extreme left-wing Palestinian terrorist group known as the Front. His mission? To place a bomb in a crowded Chelsea street.

But when the operation goes disastrously wrong, Koller suspects the Front has been infiltrated. But by whom? And for what deadly purpose?

[mitford13]

Forgot to say: thanks, pdurrant, for starting the new thread!

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by mitford13

Free on Amazon, previously published by Andre Deutsch:

Collateral Damage by Colin Smith

Amazon UK

Hans Koller is a young German obsessed by his father’s Nazi past.
He is also a leading member of an extreme left-wing Palestinian terrorist group known as the Front. His mission? To place a bomb in a crowded Chelsea street.

But when the operation goes disastrously wrong, Koller suspects the Front has been infiltrated. But by whom? And for what deadly purpose?

Thanks for the tip, also available at amazon.ca

http://www.amazon.ca/Collateral-Dama...dp/B00BUSE6TC/

[Lynx-lynx]

Originally Posted by murraypaul

Daily deal on Amazon UK is four mysteries by Suzette A Hill for 99p each. (The deal is for books 2-5 of a series. Book 1 is also 99p.)

A Load of Old Bones (1)

I picked this title up from Amazon US for AUD $1.49.

The other titles were $7.19 each.

[caleb72]

Barbara Hambly's Ran Away is currently $3.79 at Amazon (US).

A Benjamin January mystery - RAN AWAY. So began a score of advertisements every week in the New Orleans newspapers, advertising for slaves who'd fled their masters. But the Turk, Huseyin Pasha, posted no such advertisement when his two lovely concubines disappeared. And when a witness proclaimed he'd seen the 'devilish infidel' hurl their dead bodies out of a window, everyone was willing to believe him the murderer. Only Benjamin January, who knows the Turk of old, is willing to seek for the true culprit, endangering his own life in the process . . .

Amazon (US): LINK

[Julia_]

Originally Posted by mitford13

Free on Amazon, previously published by Andre Deutsch:

Collateral Damage by Colin Smith

Amazon UK

Hans Koller is a young German obsessed by his father’s Nazi past.
He is also a leading member of an extreme left-wing Palestinian terrorist group known as the Front. His mission? To place a bomb in a crowded Chelsea street.

But when the operation goes disastrously wrong, Koller suspects the Front has been infiltrated. But by whom? And for what deadly purpose?

Amazon DE http://www.amazon.de/Collateral-Dama...ds=colin+smith

[apesmom]

Bargain from Bantam for $0.99. So far it's only dropped at Amazon

The Stranger You Seek by Amanda Kyle Williams

In the sweltering heat of an Atlanta summer, a killer is pushing the city to its breaking point, preying on the unsuspecting, writing taunting letters to the media, promising more death. Desperate to stop the Wishbone Killer, A.P.D. lieutenant Aaron Rauser turns to the one person he knows can penetrate a deranged mind: Keye Street, an ex–FBI profiler and former addict who now picks up jobs where she can get them. But the last thing Keye wants is to be pulled into the firestorm of Atlanta’s worst nightmare. And then it suddenly becomes clear that the hunter has become the hunted—and the stranger she seeks is far closer than she ever dared imagine.

[dreams]

In case anyone missed the free pre-order of this last month, it is free and available now at amazon.

Closure: An eShort Story by John Lescroart and M. J. Rose [Simon and Schuster] - include adult themes and language

http://www.amazon.com/Closure-An-eSh...dp/B00C8UHUZI/

Publication Date: April 30, 2013
From two bestselling masters of suspense, a gripping, erotic story about a female assassin whose unsettling past comes back to haunt her…

Beautiful twenty-something Lucy Delray has spent two months in therapy when she says to her psychologist, "When I destroy someone...I don’t feel anything." An avenging angel who lures men into her bed and then kills them, she qualifies this shocking confession: "I only kill men who deserve it. Who have done the unforgivable. Who need to be punished." But when Lucy lures an influential man from her childhood back into her life—a painter she befriended when she was only seven years old—the charming temptress may be committing the ultimate crime: letting a long-buried secret interfere with the job at hand…

[caleb72]

Janet Evanovic's One for the Money of the Stephanie Plum series is currently $3.34 at Amazon (US).

Watch out, world. Here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey.
She's a product of the "burg," a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six.

Now Stephanie's all grown up and out on her own, living five miles from Mom and Dad's, doing her best to sever the world's longest umbilical cord. Her mother is a meddler, and her grandmother is a few cans short of a case.

Out of work and out of money, with her Miata repossessed and her refrigerator empty, Stephanie blackmails her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie, into giving her a try as an apprehension agent. Stephanie knows zilch about the job requirements, but she figures her new pal, fearless bounty hunter Ranger, can teach her what it takes to catch a crook.

Her first assignment: nail Joe Morelli, a former vice cop on the run from a charge of murder one. Morelli is also the irresistible macho pig who took Stephanie's virginity at age sixteen and then wrote the details on the bathroom wall of Mario's Sub Shop. There's still powerful chemistry between these two, so the chase should be interesting.

It could also be extremely dangerous, especially when Stephanie encounters a heavyweight title contender who likes to play rough. Benito Ramirez is known for his brutality to women. At the very least, his obsession with Stephanie complicates her manhunt and brings terror and uncertainty into her life. At worst, it could lead to murder.

Witty, fresh, and full of surprises, One for the Money is among the most eagerly awaited crime novels of the season.

Amazon (US): LINK

[BetterRead]

Down River by Stephen Gallagher is FREE at Amazon today.

Johnny Mays has the moral conscience of a selfish child in the frame of a plain-clothes cop. The city is his playground, the rest of us his toys. He likes to find out where we work, and where we live, and what will scare us most. And Johnny never had a toy he didn't break.

But Johnny starts a car chase, and he pushes it too far. Soon they're fishing for his body at the foot of a dam, and his partner Nick Frazier has been left behind. They were friends, once, a long time ago. Nick had hoped that he might save Johnny.

Johnny's last words still echo in Nick's mind: "I'm going to remember this," he said, a dark fire in his eyes. "I'm coming back for you."

Then the killings start. Killings of people Johnny didn't like. And Johnny's car is dredged up, empty.

[melmac]

Originally Posted by apesmom

Bargain from Bantam for $0.99. So far it's only dropped at Amazon

The Stranger You Seek by Amanda Kyle Williams

Thanks I've read good things about the 2nd in the series so I've had this the 1st on my wishlist for ages. Price now also dropped at Sony and Barnes & Noble

[caleb72]

Rick Mofina's Cold Fear is currently free in Amazon (US).

In the remote, rugged corner of Montana’s Glacier National Park known as the Devil’s Grasp, little Paige Baker of San Francisco disappears with her dog, Kobee, while on a camping trip with her family; or so her mother and father have told authorities.

A multi-agency task force launches a massive search as Paige fights to survive in the wilderness. Time hammers against her and soon the nation is gripped by the life-and-death drama.

Secretly, behind the scenes, the FBI grows suspicious of Paige’s parents. Their recent history and disturbing evidence links them to a horrible secret from the past.

About the author:

Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several acclaimed thrillers.

The International Thriller Writers, The Private Eye Writers of America and The Crime Writers of Canada have Rick Mofina's books as being among the best in the world. His titles have been published in some 20 countries and have been praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper.

Amazon (US): LINK

[caleb72]

Jonas Saul's The Specter is currently free at Amazon (US).

A Full-Length Novel Starring Aaron Stevens
A stripper has gone missing and the police aren't taking it too seriously, so Aaron Stevens must take the law into his own hands and investigate his sister's disappearance himself. As he uncovers connections between a series of brutal murders that have Toronto police baffled, Aaron gets too close to the truth and finds himself targeted by a billionaire who doesn't care how many people have to die to keep his secret hidden.
With unlimited resources, The Specter eliminates anyone who dares threaten his empire. Aaron's amateur sleuthing and martial arts expertise shouldn't present any problems, but when money and power do battle against family ties and passion, all the rules go out the window.
*Aaron is featured in The Victim, Sarah Roberts Book Five.

Amazon (US): LINK