MystereBooks: Two More Poisoned Pen Press 1st in Series 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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Shadows in the Night
Jane Finnis
An Aurelia Marcella Mystery (1st in series)

Roman Britain in 91 AD is a troublesome part of the mighty Empire ruled by Domitian Caesar. Tension is especially high in the north, where Aurelia Marcella, a young innkeeper from Italy, runs the Oak Tree Mansio on the road to York. A string of savage murders disrupts her peaceful life, and she and her Roman friends find themselves under attack from a secret native war-band, the Shadow-men, whose aim is to expel all Romans out. A traveller, Quintus, is nearly killed close to the inn. Soon he and Aurelia team up to track down the rebel warriors and identify their mysterious masked leader, the Shadow of Death.

    

Also available, the second in this series, discounted to $2.99: A Bitter Chill (Kindle / iTunes)

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The Commission
Michael Norman
A Sam Kincaid Mystery (1st in series)

Levi Vogue, Chairman of the powerful Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, is gunned down in the driveway of his home as he returns from a late evening tryst with Sue Ann Winkler, an exotic dancer employed in a Salt Lake City strip club.

Sam Kincaid, Chief of the Special Investigations Branch (SIB) of the Utah Department of Corrections, is assigned to help Salt Lake City Police Department homicide detective Lt. Kate McConnell solve Vogue's murder.

The investigation soon leads Kincaid and McConnell into the seedy world of prostitution and strip clubs. Ultimately, the investigation focuses on Charles (Slick) Watts, a violent ex-convict with a long criminal history and a score to settle with Levi Vogue. But before Watts can be apprehended, his body is discovered at an abandoned military base in Wendover, Nevada.

When the medical examiner concludes that Watt's death was a homicide elaborately staged to look like a suicide, Kincaid and McConnell are forced to turn their attention to a complex conspiracy behind the murders.

Ultimately, the investigation leads Kincaid and McConnell inside the Utah state prison to a small group of corrupt prison employees known as the Commission. As the police close in, Commission members turn, first on each other, and then on Kincaid.

    

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

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