MystereBooks: Two More Discounted Poisoned Pen Press 1st in Series Titles

We typically provide a list of free mysterebooks that caught our eye as the first posts every morning, but we just learned that Poisoned Pen Press has reduced the price of two more first-in-series titles to free on iTunes, 99 cents on Amazon and Kobo, and didn't want to wait until tomorrow to tell you about them.

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The Coffin Trail
Martin Edwards
A Lake District Mystery (1st in series)

Oxford historian and TV personality Daniel Kind and his new lover, Miranda, both want to escape to a new life. On impulse they buy Tarn Cottage in Brackdale, an idyllic valley in the Lake District that Daniel knew as a boy. He is still fascinated by a place so remote that the dead had to be carried out over the peaks on pack animals along the ancient Coffin Trail. But though the couple hope to live the dream of downsizing, the past has a way of catching up.

Tarn Cottage was once home to Barrie Gilpin, an autistic youth suspected of a savage murder—what looks like the ritualistic killing of a young woman visitor to the valley. She was found laid out on the Sacrifice Stone, an ancient pagan site up on the fell. Barrie fell to his death near the crime scene before he could be questioned. All these years later, Daniel retains his belief in Barrie’s innocence and questions his own policeman father’s handling of the case. When DCI Hannah Scarlett and her squad launch a cold case review, Brackdale’s skeletons begin to rattle …

      

Also available for just $2.99, the second book in this series, The Cipher Garden (Amazon / iTunes / Kobo).

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A Famine of Horses
P. F. Chisholm
A Robert Carey Mystery (1st in series)

In the year 1592, Sir Robert Carey, a handsome courtier, comes north to Carlisle to take up his new post as Deputy Warden of the West March. He has wangled his appointment to be nearer his true love, a married woman, and farther from the gimlet eyes of his creditors and the disapproving eye of his father (the Queen’s cousin—possibly her half-brother). And of course, he can use the money …

Sir Robert is quick to realize he won’t see a profit from the perks if he fails to keep the peace. Alas, he is quickly challenged by the murder of a local lad, the possible betrayal of a disappointed rival, the ire of the lady’s husband, and the question of the horses—the hundreds of horses being stolen from all over the neighborhood. It’s hard to say whether the greater danger lies without the city walls amidst the scheming Scots—or within, amidst the unruly English garrison.

      

Also available for just $2.99, the second book in this series, A Season of Knives (Amazon / iTunes / Kobo).

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