Free (nook/Kindle/Kobo/iTunes UK) Silent Pool [Award-Nom Liverpool Murder Thriller]

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The Silent Pool by UK author Phil Kurthausen is the 1st in his Erasmus Jones series of crime thrillers starring the eponymous lawyer, this installment a seeming missing persons case in Liverpool that ends up pitting him against some sort of software billionaire religious zealot with plans to take over the world to twist all available internet information in the direction of creationism, apparently, in between murdering people with mysterious links to him, free courtesy of publisher Harlequin UK's Carina (non-Press) spinoff imprint which is not to be confused with the mothership's DRM-free Carina Press imprint, where apparently never shall the twain meet.

This is the iTunes UK store's featured Free Book of the Week, and according to the author's bio-blurb, appeared in "Thriller Round in the Harper Collins People's Novelist Competition broadcast on ITV in November 2011" and was later shortlisted for the Dundee International Literary Prize in 2012.

Currently free, probably just until Monday @ B&N UK, Amazon UK, iTunes UK, and Kobo (available to the UK, and seems decidedly un-free when I spot-check other regional iTunes & Amazon stores whose countries often also get the UK freebies, though YMMV). Probably also free at Google Play UK, which I can't easily check from Canada.

If you happen to like this one and wish to read more Liverpudlian Lawyer vs Crime Thrillers, apparently the 2nd-in-series, Sudden Death, is currently discounted to £1.49 in assorted venues.

Description
One choice: run…or die.

It is a time of austerity. Financial cuts are biting hard and the once great City of Liverpool finds itself now almost bankrupt. At the eleventh hour funding is found in the form of enigmatic billionaire Kirk Bovind, a religious zealot, determined to change the moral fibre and bring salvation to the streets.

Against this backdrop a man disappears without trace. Solitary lawyer, Erasmus Jones, agrees to track the missing Stephen down, but quickly discovers that this is more than just a missing person case. Men are being brutally murdered across the city and Erasmus discovers that Bovind, the murdered men and Stephen once knew each other as boys…