Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Mystery Picks of the Day – December 3, 2014

Today the HBS Mystery Reader’s Circle features our Mystery Novels Picks of the Day. These are some of the BEST DEALS from outstanding Mystery Authors for the Kindle at Amazon.

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Without a Trace

The Rock Harbor Series



Author: Colleen Coble

Price: FREE


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When a plane carrying Bree Nicholls' husband and son disappears, her life changes forever. Her relentless determination to find them starts an investigation that links their disappearance to a violent crime threatening to tear the peaceful town of Rock Harbor apart.

Mystery fans will love this exciting new series from best-selling author Colleen Coble. Set in the untamed beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Rock Harbor Series is full of suspense and romance, drawing you into the life and operation of a canine search-and-rescue team as it unravels the secrets of an enchanting wilderness.


Author Genre: Romance, Mystery & Thrillers

Website: Colleen Coble
Twitter: @colleencoble
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Author Description:
Best-selling author Colleen Coble's novels have won or finaled in awards ranging from the Best Books of Indiana, the ACFW Carol Award, the Romance Writers of America RITA, the Holt Medallion, the Daphne du Maurier, National Readers' Choice, and the Booksellers Best. She has over 2 million books in print and writes romantic mysteries because she loves to see justice prevail. Colleen is CEO of American Christian Fiction Writers. She lives with her husband Dave in Indiana.


The Blackest Night

Jackson mystery series volume 3



Author: Jenny Hilborne

Price: $ 0.99


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Thirteen years ago, William Law went to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Six years after his release, he is still struggling to put his life back together. Despite losing everything, he has his innocence...and his hope of reconnecting with his wife. But life takes another bad turn on the night he is attacked in an alleyway. With the real perpetrator now behind bars, is the violent encounter connected to Law's former incarceration or to his release?

Meanwhile, Homicide inspector Mac Jackson is leading inquiries in a murder investigation. When he receives an anonymous phone call with some startling information, he learns that one crime is connected to another, and that the wrongfully convicted ex-con might be the only person who can lead him to the truth.


Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Psychology

Author's Blog: Jfhilborne's Blog - Author of mystery and suspense
Twitter: @JFHilborne
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Author Description:
I'm a native Brit and the author of psychological thrillers and mysteries, including the Jackson series set in San Francisco. I divide my time between California and England, plotting, researching and writing.

My titles include: MADNESS AND MURDER (Jackson 1), NO ALIBI, HIDE AND SEEK (Jackson 2), STONE COLD, and THE BLACKEST NIGHT (Jackson 3).

My background is in real estate and finance which provides much of the inspiration for my stories, as does my love of travel and ex-pat status. I've practiced martial arts in the form of Shotokan Karate and hold six belts.

A little secret about me: Unlike the fiends wandering through the text in my novels, I'm afraid of the dark.


Target of Death

cozy mystery: A Cajun Cooking Mystery



Author: Madison Johns

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Pulled from a ditch by a mysterious man wearing a ski mask (who later turns out to be the local archery hotshot, Daniel Adams), tough as nails Tammy Rodrigue, also known as "Louisiana Sassy" on the archery circuit, rolls into Bear Paw, Michigan in the middle of a snow storm with her dear friend, Dixie, for the "Tournament of Trouble" archery competition - and finds herself immediately under suspicion of murder!

Clayton Percy, the victim, was killed by an arrow through the heart - an arrow that just happens to have the same sort of pink and white fletching that Tammy uses. He'd gone and gotten himself killed - but no one in Bear Paw seems to know why...unless they're keeping it a secret?

While Dixie helps their new friend Margarita spice up her restaurant business with hot new Cajun recipes to serve up during the winter festival, the ladies discover Bear Paw holds more secrets than anything hiding out in the Bayou back home. Still, Tammy must somehow unravel the mystery and find Clayton's murderer or she'll end up waiting out the archery tournament in a jail cell!

Will Tammy, Dixie, and Margarita solve the mystery and find Clayton's killer in time for "Louisiana Sassy" to make this year's "Tournament of Trouble?" Or will the hotshot lady archery champion finally miss her mark?


Author Genre: Sleuth Mystery,Cozy Mystery,Romance

Website: Author Madison Johns
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Twitter: @madisonjohns11
E-Mail: madisonjohnswriter@gmail.com
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Author Description:
Madison Johns began writing at the age off 44 without any prior education or formal training. Although sleep deprived from working third shift, she knew if she used what she had learned while caring for senior citizens to good use, it would result in something quite unique. In 2012 she unleashed her first Agnes Barton mystery, Armed and Outrageous, onto the publishing scene opting to become an independent author. In has gone on to be her first Amazon bestseller. In 2013 she published two other books in the Agnes Barton series and they like the first, have went on to become bestsellers in both the cozy and humor categories. Her Agnes Barton series features two senior aged ladies digging up clues with enough laugh aloud antics to cause James Bond to blush. It features zany and quirky characters that are easy to fall in love with.

She has also published a romance novella, Pretty and Pregnant, in 2013. In October of 2013, Tirgearr Publishing published her romance novel, Redneck Romance.

Madison is now able to do what she loves best and work from home as a full time writer. She has two children and black lab to keep her company while she churns out more Agnes Barton stories with a few others brewing in the pot.


The Key: Part One

Project Enterprise Book 1



Author: Pauline Baird Jones

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A science fiction/action adventure romance novel

In Part One:

Spunky US Top Gun pilot, Sara Donavan’s blasting aliens when she crashes on a deserted planet. Well, almost deserted, another stranded pilot, a seriously hot alien, Kiernan Fyn, rescues Sara and takes her to his cave. When Sara’s crew finds her, she returns Fyn’s favor and takes him back with her to the huge U S spaceship she calls home. Though he fits in well on the ship, and he and Sara have a close encounter—an out-of-this-world kiss—Fyn’s hiding a dark secret. Sara has her own mystery, she discovers a hidden city everyone in the galaxy’s searching for. The lost city is a key to Sara’s baffling abilities and her mother’s past but its discovery also leads dangerous enemies to the Earth Expedition.


Author Genre: Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers

Website: Pauline Baird Jones
Author's Blog: Life Happens. a Lot. - The Perils of Pauline
Twitter: @paulinebjones
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Author Description:
Pauline Baird Jones had a tough time with reality from the get-go. After "schooling" from four (yes FOUR brothers) she knew that some people needed love and others needed shooting. She figured she could handle both.

Romantic suspense was the logical starting point, but there were more worlds to explore, more rules to break and minds to bend. She grabbed her pocket watch and time travel device and dove through the wormhole into the world of science fiction and Steampunk. Let's face it, she's been making up science her whole life. (Sorry science teacher!)

And while she loves mayhem, doing it legal, by doing fictional, is way better than getting strip searched or going to jail. So she goes "Godzilla" on her characters and then gives the good ones a happy ever after.

In her real life, Pauline loves her family, chocolate, bacon, Diet Dr. Pepper, TV, movies and taking it easy. Because Life Happens. A lot.


WICKED GREED

Greed Series #3



Author: John W. Mefford

Price: FREE


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What happens when Mr. Right is Everything Wrong?

A twisted email lands at journalism outlets across the south, referencing innocent little animals, primal urges, Hollywood movie stars, and women of a certain ilk…tearing flesh from bone. The haunting note tests newspaper publisher Michael Doyle’s over-protective nature.

Is the email just a prank from a sheltered computer geek, or a prophetic sign of a future heinous act?

Deadly brutality swallows up one beautiful young lady after another…and it seems no one can stop it. What force is behind this chain of sadistic killings, pulling the strings, toying with pretty girls who want nothing more than to meet Mr. Right? As Michael and his team track a series of bizarre murders in southern college towns—slowly piecing together what the FBI cannot—a savage monster strikes close to home.

The greed of the wicked pervades all who touch it—by choice or by circumstance.


Author Genre: Mystery & Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Suspense

Website: John W. Mefford
Twitter: @jwmefford
E-Mail: jwmefford@gmail.com
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Author Description:
A veteran of the corporate wars, former journalist, and true studier of human and social behavior, John W. Mefford has been writing his debut novel since he first entered the work force twenty-five years ago, although he never put words on paper until late 2009.

John writes novels full of intrigue, suspense, and thrills, but they also evoke an emotional connection to the characters.

When he's not writing, he chases three kids around, slaves away in the yard, reads, takes in as many sports as time allows, watches all sorts of movies, and continues to make mental notes of people and societies across the land.

John lives in Frisco, Texas with his beautiful wife, three curious kids, and a feisty fat cat.
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