Saturday, September 01, 2012

100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or less; This Month's Mystery and Suspense Selection

Amazon Kindle eBooks $3.99 or Less

Every month Amazon releases a new selection of Kindle books priced $3.99 or less.

We've looked through the September books and listed below those in the "mystery/suspense" category; we've added one written for young adults that we think may be of interest to our readers … and left another, though we're not quite sure it is actually a mystery or thriller.

All of the books listed below are currently priced at either $1.99 or $2.99 for the month of September 2012 only.

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The Quiche of Death by M. C. Beaton

The Quiche of Death by M. C. Beaton
An Agatha Raisin Mystery (1st in series)

Amazon Kindle eBook

Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best quiche will make her the toast of the town. But her recipe for social advancement sours when Judge Cummings-Browne not only snubs her entry — but falls over dead! After her quiche's secret ingredient turns out to be poison, she must reveal the unsavory truth …

Agatha has never baked a thing in her life! In fact, she bought her entry ready-made from an upper crust London quicherie. Grating on the nerves of several Carsely residents, she is soon receiving sinister notes. Has her cheating and meddling landed her in hot water, or are the threats related to the suspicious death? It may mean the difference between egg on her face and a coroner's tag on her toe …

The Black Stiletto by Raymond Benson

The Black Stiletto by Raymond Benson
A Judy Cooper, "Black Stiletto" Mystery (1st in series)

Amazon Kindle eBook

Could Martin Talbot's elderly, Alzheimer-stricken mother, Judy, really have been the Black Stiletto?

When Martin discovers several volumes of her diaries hidden by his mother, he is stunned beyond all imagination. His mother, the underground heroine of yesteryear? The famed, still unidentified woman who battled Communist spies, took on the Mafia, and preyed on common crooks? The woman who exacted punishment on evildoers without mercy?

But it is all described, in great detail, in the diaries. What caused her to begin her quest for justice. Her decision to act outside the law. Her feats as the famed and feared vigilante. How her reputation exploded. In short, how it all played out. Could it be true?

Talbot is filled with doubt and disbelief. But the reappearance of one of the Stiletto's old enemies with a thirst for merciless revenge makes the story more than real and could imperil the life of not only the Stiletto, but her son and granddaughter as well.

The Dummy Line by Bobby Cole

The Dummy Line by Bobby Cole

Amazon Kindle eBook

Avid hunter Jake Crosby is thrilled that his nine-year-old daughter Katy shares his love of the outdoors. His wife, Morgan, on the other hand, does not, which means Jake and Katy enjoy an abundance of hunting, fishing, and camping trips together. So when they head off into the Alabama woods for a spring turkey hunt, Jake expects nothing out of the ordinary. But even his worst nightmares could not prepare him for what befalls them that evening, when a band of drug dealers attempts to break into their remote camp. Desperate to protect his daughter and himself, Jake makes a gut-wrenching decision. His quick thinking enables him and Katy to escape … but brings the gang of vengeful criminals hot on their trail. Gambling on his knowledge of the land and hunting skills, he leads their bloodthirsty pursuers on a perilous cat-and-mouse game deep within the Noxubee River swamp. Jake knows they all won't come out alive — but he will do whatever is necessary to make sure Katy does.

A Good and Useful Hurt by Aric Davis

A Good and Useful Hurt by Aric Davis

Amazon Kindle eBook

Mike is a tattoo artist running his own shop, and Deb is the piercing artist he hires to round out the motley crew at his studio of four. The last thing either expects is romance, but that's exactly what happens when they follow their off-kilter careers and love lives into complete disaster.

When Mike follows a growing trend and tattoos the ashes of deceased loved ones into several customers' tattoos, he has no idea that it will one day provide the solution — and solace — he will sorely need. And when the life of a serial killer tragically collides with the lives of those in the tattoo shop, Mike and Deb will stop at nothing in their quest for revenge, even if it means stepping outside the known boundaries of life and death.

Ink that is full of crematory ashes, a sociopathic killer, and pain in its most raw form combine for one of the most imaginative, haunting thrillers in recent memory.

Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep

Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep
A Mythos Academy Mystery (1st in series)

Amazon Kindle eBook

My name is Gwen Frost, and I go to Mythos Academy — a school of myths, magic and warrior whiz kids, where even the lowliest geek knows how to chop off somebody's head with a sword and Logan Quinn, the hottest Spartan guy in school, also happens to be the deadliest.

But lately, things have been weird, even for Mythos. First, mean girl Jasmine Ashton was murdered in the Library of Antiquities. Then, someone stole the Bowl of Tears, a magical artifact that can be used to bring about the second Chaos War. You know, death, destruction and lots of other bad, bad things. Freaky stuff like this goes on all the time at Mythos, but I'm determined to find out who killed Jasmine and why — especially since I should have been the one who died …

Thicker than Water by G. M. Ford

Thicker than Water by G. M. Ford
A Leo Waterman Mystery (7th in series)

Amazon Kindle eBook

Hard living collects its fair share of casualties, but somehow Leo Waterman avoided becoming one of them. Destined for a trust fund that was taking too damn long to kick in, he spent years eking out a living in Seattle as a private investigator. Along the way he managed to survive countless run-ins with murderers, drug dealers, and jealous wives. But when Rebecca, the love of his life, dumped him to marry someone else … that was a different story. Still, he took it like a man, eventually collecting his family money and slipping into semi-retirement—until the day an unwelcome visitor brings him the worst possible news.

Rebecca has vanished and no one, not even her manipulative, overprotective mother, can find a trace of her. Together with his band of informers and sidekicks (in truth a rather motley crew of homeless drunks and reprobates), Leo wades back into the game, determined to save Rebecca once and for all.

But her trail is a twisted one, thick with deception and depravity that winds from the rain-swept streets of Seattle to the murky depths of the great North Woods. The stink of it all seems to emanate from none other than Rebecca's new husband, Brett Ward, whose tangle of lies will cast Leo into the path of a ruthless gang that will stop at nothing — not even murder — to protect what's theirs.

Black Sunshine by Ninie Hammon

Black Sunshine by Ninie Hammon

Amazon Kindle eBook

Will Givens was one of two survivors of the 1981 explosion that killed 52 Eastern Kentucky men in the Harlan #7 Coal Mine. But Will carries a terrible secret hidden from all about the tragedy that occurred after the explosion under Black Mountain. When he comes home 20 years later to face his past, he tips a delicate balance that will result in a second disaster worse than the first.

As his life entwines with a grandmother whose grief has imprisoned her, a beautiful young woman who carries a terrible secret of her own and a mentally handicapped boy who carves coal statutes, he's unaware of the danger — or that the boy holds the key to it all. Will he figure that out before it's too late?

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

Amazon Kindle eBook

Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko's next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step.

When the body turns up and is identified, Detective Kusanagi draws the case and Yasuko comes under suspicion. Kusanagi is unable to find any obvious holes in Yasuko's manufactured alibi and yet is still sure that there's something wrong. Kusanagi brings in Dr. Manabu Yukawa, a physicist and college friend who frequently consults with the police. Yukawa, known to the police by the nickname Professor Galileo, went to college with Ishigami. After meeting up with him again, Yukawa is convinced that Ishigami had something to do with the murder. What ensues is a high level battle of wits, as Ishigami tries to protect Yasuko by outmaneuvering and outthinking Yukawa, who faces his most clever and determined opponent yet.

The Perfect Assassin by Ward Larsen

The Perfect Assassin by Ward Larsen

Amazon Kindle eBook

One perfect shot will change the course of history. Christine Palmer, a young American doctor sailing solo across the Atlantic, makes an incredible discovery - a man narrowly clinging to his life in the frigid waters. But there is much more to this desperate survivor than meets the eye.David Slaton is a Kidon — a highly-trained, highly-precise, and highly-dangerous assassin. The Kidon is both the hunter and the hunted, and he and Christine are in grave danger. Will they win in this race against time?

Murder Most Maine by Karen MacInerney

Murder Most Maine by Karen MacInerney
A Natalie Barnes Mystery (3rd in series)

Amazon Kindle eBook

It's springtime on Cranberry Island — and love is in the air. It seems like every woman has the hots for buff trainer Dirk De Leon. He and his equally-gorgeous business partner, Vanessa Black, are leading a weight-loss retreat at the Gray Whale Inn — forcing innkeeper Natalie Barnes to lighten up her butter-laden breakfast menu.

The mood on the island darkens when two grisly discoveries are made. The first is a skeleton walled up at the island's lighthouse. The second is a corpse of the fresh variety — the handsome Dirk! Could the spirit that once embodied the skeletal remains — perhaps the lighthouse keeper who disappeared a century ago — be responsible for Dirk's death?

The police pin the blame on Natalie's boyfriend who — to her dismay — had a long-ago fling with Vanessa. To find the true killer and ease her own aching heart, Natalie must untangle the knot of jealous girlfriends and spurned admirers that once surrounded the hunky trainer.

The Immortalists by Kyle Mills

The Immortalists by Kyle Mills

Amazon Kindle eBook

Dr. Richard Draman is trying desperately to discover a cure for a disease that causes children to age at a wildly accelerated rate — a rare genetic condition that is killing his own daughter. When the husband of a colleague quietly gives him a copy of the classified work she was doing before her mysterious suicide, Draman finally sees a glimmer of hope. The conclusions are stunning, with the potential to not only turn the field of biology on its head, but reshape the world. Soon, though, he finds himself on the run, relentlessly pursued by a seemingly omnipotent group of men who will do whatever it takes to silence him.

Wahoo Rhapsody by Shaun Morey

Wahoo Rhapsody by Shaun Morey
An Atticus Fish Mystery (1st in series)

Amazon Kindle eBook

Take one sea-loving captain, a drug-smuggling first mate, and a novice deckhand with a secret, and you have the motley crew of the Wahoo Rhapsody, a ramshackle fishing charter plying the Pacific's waters off the coast of Cabo San Lucas. Captain Winston Weber makes an honest, if lean, living running fishing charters between Mexico and California, with no inkling of the fact that his first mate, Weevil Ott, is smuggling marijuana inside the yellowfin tuna stacked in the boat's hold. But when Weevil decides to skim a small fortune for himself, goons under orders from the mysterious drug lord known only as "La Cucaracha" descend upon the Wahoo Rhapsody.

Already Gone by John Rector

Already Gone by John Rector

Amazon Kindle eBook

Jake Reese is a writing teacher at an American university. He lives in a small brick Tudor close to campus with his art buyer wife, Diane. His life is quiet-Ordinary even. And he likes it that way. But it wasn't always quiet. Jake's distant past was a life on the streets, inflicting damage and suffering on more people than he can count. And now someone from his past, it seems, has come looking for him.

When two men attack Jake in a parking lot and cut off his ring finger, he tries to dismiss it as an unlucky case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But when events take a more sinister turn and Diane goes missing, Jake knows he can no longer hide from the truth.

As he embarks on a mission to find his wife, he realizes his dark past is refusing to stay buried, and that his future is about to unfold in ways he could never have imagined.

Death on a High Floor by Charles Rosenberg

Death on a High Floor by Charles Rosenberg

Amazon Kindle eBook

When the much-despised Marbury Marfan senior partner Simon Rafer turns up dead, with an ornate dagger buried between his shoulder blades, it comes as a surprise to no one. Simon was an abusive boss and had recently been on the warpath, clearing the "dead wood" from the legal firm he treated as his personal fiefdom. Nearly a thousand attorneys and associates, scattered across four continents, had good reason to want Rafer dead, but homicide Detective Spritz has his eye trained on Marbury Marfan partner Robert Tarza, in particular. Tarza and his friend and colleague — and maybe a bit more — Jenna are soon forced to play detective themselves, in a race to find the real killer or killers before Spritz finishes assembling a collection of evidence that will make a very credible case against Tarza.

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman

Amazon Kindle eBook

Sasha Davis, smart and pretty, was once an all-American teenage beauty queen. Full of potential, she was the only student at her midwestern high school to attend college on the East Coast. But soon her promise begins to falter. After starting graduate school in New York, Sasha gets married and drops out of school to take a clerical job. Consigned to the role of trophy wife, and already feeling old at twenty-four, she lives in fear of turning thirty — the year, in her mind, when her beauty will fade and life as she knows it will end. While she still has time, she embarks on an adventure of self-discovery and sexual exploration. Only after entering a second marriage and finding herself trapped by her responsibilities as a mother, does she finally begin to figure out what's gone wrong.

Legacy of the Dragon by J. Gregory Smith

Legacy of the Dragon by J. Gregory Smith
A Paul Chang Mystery (2nd in series)

Amazon Kindle eBook

For former NYPD and Delaware State Police detective Paul Chang, retiring to open his own agency with former partner Nelson Rogers should mean leaving behind politics and scapegoating. Instead, corrupt Colonel Byrd of the state police and his lackey Clyde Foley harass Chang at every turn, and their unwanted attention puts his fledgling business on the brink of bankruptcy.

With the police on his back and the agency taking sleazy cases he never thought he'd have to, Chang erupts under the job's pressures and sees his personal demon, an alter ego he calls the dragon, emerge. Only the training from his martial arts teacher and old friend Shu can keep Chang sane. But when someone tries to frame him for the stalking of his ex-wife and a journalist, the harassment turns deadly and the lives of everyone close to him are in danger. Unable to wait for events to take their course, Chang must unleash the dragon.

Irresistible Impulse by Robert K. Tanenbaum

Irresistible Impulse by Robert K. Tanenbaum
A Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Mystery (9th in series)

Amazon Kindle eBook

Back as head of the district attorney's homicide bureau, Butch Karp comes up against one of his most bizarre cases yet. A series of racially motivated murders in Harlem prove to be the work of a wealthy suburbanite out to relive a twisted episode from his childhood. The killer's showboating defense attorney will stop at nothing to derail Karp's prosecution — even if it means igniting a race war. But while Karp relentlessly pursues the guilty, his wife, Marlene, risks everything when standing up for victims of domestic abuse and crosses into vigilantism.

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September Fair by Jess Lourey is Today's Sixth Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature September Fair by Jess Lourey as today's sixth free mystery ebook.

This title was listed as free as of the date and time of this post. Prices are subject to change without notice. The price displayed on the vendor website at the time of purchase will be the price paid for the book. Please confirm the price of the book before completing your transaction.

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September Fair by Jess Lourey

September Fair
Jess Lourey
A Mira James, "Murder by Month" Mystery
Publisher: Midnight Ink

This is the fifth mystery in this popular series.

The Minnesota State Fair-the beloved home of 4H exhibits, Midway rides, and everything on a stick. The festival fun is riding high until the recently crowned Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dairy, a Battle Lake native, is brutally murdered while her regal likeness is carved in butter. Can Mira James, covering the fair for the Battle Lake Recall, expose a deadly State Fair secret and win a blue ribbon for caging a killer? You bet your last deep-fried Nut Goodie!

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Hostage by R. D. Zimmerman is Today's Fifth Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature Hostage by R. D. Zimmerman as today's fifth free mystery ebook.

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Hostage by R. D. Zimmerman

Hostage
R. D. Zimmerman
A Todd Mills Mystery
Publisher: ScribblePub

This is the third mystery (of five) in this series, all first published in the mid- to late-1990s.

It's the coup of his career — until the unthinkable happens.

Todd Mills, Minneapolis's only openly gay journalist, is getting ready for what promises to be an explosive television event: an exclusive interview with Congressman Johnny Clariton, a conservative whose vehement opposition to gay rights and AIDS research has fueled his rapid political ascent.

But coup turns to chaos when Todd's interview is abruptly ended by three gun-wielding kidnappers — an unlikely trio of domestic terrorists in the final stages of AIDS. With Todd as their conduit to a global audience, the abductors are willing to risk what's left of their lives to give violent expression to their AIDS rage.

Their goal: to make the world know what it's like to live — and die — with AIDS.

Their weapons: a video camera, a hostage, and a syringe full of blood.

While the increasingly desperate events play out on television for the world to see, Todd's relationship with homicide investigator Steve Rawlins is dragged into the fray, throwing the unsuspecting Rawlins — still grieving over the recent end of his closest friend's long struggle with AIDS — on a collision course with the kidnappers. And as television reporter, cop, and the FBI all continue their hunt for the terrorists, the tension builds to a heart-wrenching, tragic climax.

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The Harbinger by Mark Graham is Today's Fourth Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Harbinger by Mark Graham as today's fourth free mystery ebook.

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The Harbinger by Mark Graham

The Harbinger
Mark Graham
Publisher: Graham Publishing

This debut novel was first published in 1988 in hardcover by Henry Holt.

An exiled black revolutionary leader escapes from police surveillance in Botswana.

A white labor union leader is found murdered in the "Blacks Only" lounge of the Port Elizabeth train station.

A high-ranking government official is activated by a foreign power after sixteen years as a "sleeper" agent.

An American arms dealer assembles a shipment of weapons destined for a South African gold mining company.

Each of these seemingly disparate events leads Homicide Detective Nigel Mansell to an ingenious plot to infiltrate the extraordinarily rich South African diamond mining system and to instigate a long overdue revolution against that country's tyrannical government.

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Moon Signs by Helen Haught Fanick is Today's Third Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature Moon Signs by Helen Haught Fanick as today's third free mystery ebook.

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Moon Signs by Helen Haught Fanick

Moon Signs
Helen Haught Fanick
Publisher: Helen Haught Fanick

Retirement is a time for knitting, gardening, and an occasional quiet lunch with friends, according to Kathleen Williamson. Her sister Andrea has an altogether different point of view. When the sisters go to the Canaan Valley to search for paintings mentioned in a document found in an old hotel once owned by their grandparents—paintings that might be Monets—Andrea immediately becomes involved in tracking down a murderer. Kathleen would much rather be looking for the paintings, but she goes along with Andrea, since the victim was their hotel-keeper, murdered just down the hall from their room. The question is: Does the murder have something to do with the elusive paintings?

There are many clues and many suspects, including hotel staff, valley residents, and the mysterious foreigners who come from the Eastern Seaboard for skiing. There are also many types of danger—icy roads, sub-zero temperatures, and a killer who doesn't care how many people die in the attempt to make sure the right ones do.

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Courthouse Cowboys by P. A. Moore is Today's Second Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature Courthouse Cowboys by P. A. Moore as today's second free mystery ebook.

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Courthouse Cowboys by P. A. Moore

Courthouse Cowboys
P. A. Moore
Publisher: P. A. Moore

Murder dogs Jack and Paige Defalco from their days as California prosecutors to their newfound careers as Montana defense attorneys. Never mind that they've uprooted their kids, caravanned 2,000 miles to the hinterlands of Kootenai County, kissed goodbye to their fat salaries, or vowed to avoid homicide.

At Deer Lodge State Prison in 1999, murder sits before them in the guise of a skeletal, bloody-lipped, broken-nosed teenager who grins out one side of his mouth as he stares at them through a swollen eye. Evidently his fellow criminals brook no mercy for a convicted killer, regardless of his age or feeble intelligence.

This kid's parents have no money and the local legal eagles have warned the Defalcos to let the conviction stand … or else. Yet that threat, a gauntlet thrown down, fuels the couple's addiction to criminal law. It makes them flip the bird at those in authority and go to trial anyway. So, as they return the kid's stare, a silent agreement passes between them, a nod that conveys two decades of marriage and as many years in the courtroom. The Defalcos will defend mentally disabled Ben Stagg.

Is it coincidence that soon thereafter anonymous callers threaten them? That the local media excoriates them? That the State Bar investigates them? Are they crazy to rat out the corrupt criminal justice system to the ACLU and the Montana Supreme Court? Are they foolhardy to challenge the powerful judges, lawyers, and cops who comprise the Courthouse Cowboys?

And with the discovery that Ben Stagg suffers from Klinefelter's syndrome, a common but rarely diagnosed genetic disorder, will a jury acquit him of murder when presented with a never-before-used insanity defense?

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The Gauguin Connection by Estelle Ryan is Today's Featured Free MystereBook

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature The Gauguin Connection by Estelle Ryan as today's free mystery ebook.

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The Gauguin Connection by Estelle Ryan

The Gauguin Connection
Estelle Ryan
A Genevieve Lenard Mystery
Publisher: Estelle Ryan

An investigation into the murder of a young artist starts out as a reluctant favour granted by Dr Genevieve Lenard to help out the surly friend of her boss. But it quickly turns into a quagmire of complex criminal connections and leads Genevieve through a maze of stolen Eurocorps weapons; a money-laundering European Union funded charity; forged art and an unlikely alliance with two criminals.

As a world renowned expert on nonverbal communication and working as an insurance investigator, Genevieve overcame many obstacles in her life. Living a successful, independent life with high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder is a daily challenge. Nothing – not her studies, her high IQ or her astounding analytical skills – prepared her for the changes about to take place in her life. Suddenly she is forced out of her predictable routines, safe environment and limited social interaction and thrown into exploring the meaning of friendship, expanding her social definitions, and for the first time in her life part of a team in a race to stop the senseless murders of more artists.

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Winner of the 2012 Ngaio Marsh Award Announced

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The winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel of 2012 was announced a couple of hours ago — Saturday evening in New Zealand — with Neil Cross taking home the honor for his book Luther: The Calling.

Though the book, featuring a character Cross created for the television series Luther, was published earlier this year in the UK, it will only be published this coming week here in the US.

The Ngaio Marsh Award recognizes the best crime, mystery, or thriller novel written by a New Zealand citizen or resident.

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Luther: The Calling by Neil Cross

Luther: The Calling
Neil Cross
A John Luther Mystery (1st in series)

Meet Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. He's a murder detective with an extraordinary case-clearance rate. He's obsessive, instinctive, and intense. Nobody who ever stood at his side has a bad word to say about him. And yet there are rumors that Luther is bad—not corrupt, not on the take, but tormented. After years of chasing the most depraved criminals in London's gritty underworld, he seethes with a hidden fury that at times he can barely control. Sometimes it sends him to the brink of madness, making him do things any other detective wouldn't and shouldn't do.

Luther: The Calling by Neil Cross, Amazon Kindle format  Luther: The Calling by Neil Cross, iTune iBook format

True Crime by Max Allan Collins is Today's Kindle Daily Deal

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MystereBooks is pleased to feature True Crime by Max Allan Collins as today's Amazon Kindle Daily Deal.

The deal price of $1.99 is valid only for today, Saturday, September 01, 2012.

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True Crime by Max Allan Collins

True Crime
Max Allan Collins
A Nathan Heller Mystery
AmazonEncore

The second book in this series, it is a sequel to the author's Shamus Award-winning mystery introducing Nate Heller, True Detective.

1934 Chicago dazzles with fast action and calculating, cold-blooded meanness as private detective Nate Heller combs Chicago's North Side looking for John Dillinger. But things take a turn for the strange when self-aggrandizing G-Man Melvin Purvis shoots down a Dillinger double in front of the Biograph Theater.

Full of muscle and oozing Chicago's tough-guy persona to the hilt, Max Allan Collins' Nate Heller is the ultimate private investigator—in the ultimate P.I. town. Heller's undercover search for a farmer's-daughter-turned-gun-moll has him on the dusty Depression backroads of middle America, in the company of Ma Barker and her boys, Baby Face Nelson, Alvin Karpis, and a very-much-still-alive Dillinger—whose outlandish plan to kidnap J. Edgar Hoover in downtown Chicago is one Heller tries to foil.

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