MystereBooks: More Poisoned Pen Press eMystery Discounts!

Poisoned Pen Press has just e-mailed us, announcing that two more first-in-series mystery titles are free on iTunes, 99 cents on Amazon … and we didn't want to wait until tomorrow to tell you about them. (Typically these discounted titles are also available on Kobo, but as of the date and time of this post, the discounts weren't available from them.) The second book in both series is also discounted, to $2.99 from both Amazon and iTunes.

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The Ragtime Kid
Larry Karp
A Ragtime Mystery (1st in series)

Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano-playing fool, hears Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" played one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It's destiny calling. Asking for ragtime lessons, he's told, "No, Ragtime is colored music." So Brun runs away from the family farm to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil.

What Brun doesn't expect is to trip over the body of a young woman. He thoughtlessly picks up a couple of items before he rushes away from the murder scene.

When Edward Fitzgerald, a man who befriended Brun his first night in town, is arrested for the woman's murder, Brun is certain he's innocent. But if the boy shows anyone the things he pocketed at the scene — things he now knows belonged to Scott Joplin — he'll point the finger at the composer … and himself.

Brun decides to get Fitzgerald, Joplin, and himself off the hook by finding the real killer, but for that he eventually needs some help from Dr. Overstreet, the alcoholic town mayor; and John Stark, a man pushing sixty, who's been employing Brun at his music store. Sedalia is rife with suspects, some of them opportunists bent on stealing Joplin's music. And then there are the girls and women — mysteries to Brun — like a teenager seized with religious fever, a couple of mischievous prostitutes, and an attractive, ambitious young woman with a hint of scarlet in her past, who further complicate his pursuit of the killer.

    

Also available, the second in this series, discounted to $2.99: The King of Ragtime (Kindle / iTunes)

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Bullet Hole
Keith Miles
An Alan Saxon Mystery (1st in series)

For Alan Saxon, too long ago a champion and once again in top form, this is a crucial tournament, and he must carefully prepare himself. But his ritual is rudely interrupted by the appearance of a young, pretty golf groupie who starts by demanding a lift and ends up naked and dead in his bed.

She is not the only casualty, and it fast becomes clear that someone wants Saxon out of the open. As the championship builds to its climax, at last Saxon thinks he knows who the killer is — but then he must decide: which hole is the bullet hole?

    

Also available, the second in this series, discounted to $2.99: Double Eagle (Kindle / iTunes)

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