English Mysteries Club discussion

Just found out about 2 free British mysteries (kindle edition) - in US for today. The Loyal Servant by Eva Hudson and The One You Love by Paul Pilkington. I am not familiar with either author, but free is good.

They are both free at Barnes & Noble too, but thank you Yvonne for telling me about Kindle.

I never heard of these authors either. Yes, free is always good. Thanks.

Thanks. Got them both!

Denise wrote: "Thanks. Got them both!"

Ditto! even though I didn't get this message till (apparently) the next day.

Thanks, I'll try them as well.

I read The Loyal Servant and thought it was pretty good.

How do you find these free ebooks? I'm fairly new at this. I have a Kindle reader on my iPad and love it. I think I can also get a Nook reader.

Kay, I get a message every day (Kindle Daily Deals) from Amazon that includes mysteries. You do have to separate the wheat from the chaff, but that's one way to find out what's out there. You just have to sign up for it at your Amazon account and e-mail subscriptions page.

There are also a lot of sites on the web that gather info about freebies. Do a search on Google and you'll see what I mean.

Just in case you're a historical mysteries fan, the Crime Thru Time Yahoo group has posts every day with free historical mysteries. You do have to join the group to get the info, obviously.

Thanks so much for the information. I'll try all of those. I just got two Mary Roberts Rinehart ebooks from Amazon.

Kay,
There's a wide variety of 'freebie' sites out there...

A place like dailyfreebooks.com shows you 'everything', updated daily and you can sort by genre. Bookbub.com asks you to choose your genres in advance--they're fairly selective and 'curate' some of the better self-publishing titles and will send you a handful of free to 2.99 suggestions each day.

For me, the most useful site is ereaderiq.com. They do list some freebies, but best of all you can register books you're interested in and they'll email you if the price drops to a level you're interested in. You can also track books you're waiting to be kindle-ized, and they'll alert you if they're being published.

Also, on the amazon kindle books home page, if you click on any of the best seller lists on the right, usually you then get an option to also click on Top 100 Free in that category. (They've made it a little harder to find.)

Kay, Sorry I haven't answered your question before now about how to find those free e-books. I can't remember exactly how I did it (I am new at this, too).I know I went to amazon.com and used keywords such as free kindle edition British detectives.

Kay wrote: "Thanks so much for the information. I'll try all of those. I just got two Mary Roberts Rinehart ebooks from Amazon."

Technically, Rinehart is American - but I don't think this club is that chauvinistic. [/goodnaturedsarcasm] I've tried Rinehart before, and personally, I didn't enjoy her writing much, although I did love Avery Hopwood's novelization of her play, The Bat. When you read her books, I hope you'll review and maybe share with the group - I'd be interested to know what you think about her work.


On the general subject of the topic, I usually find my free eBooks by browsing Goodreads recommendations and lists in the genre I'm looking for. However narrow the niche, Goodreads always has a way to help me find some books, and Amazon usually has a great selection of pre-1930 freebies: Doyle, Chestertor, Collins, Poe, Dickens, Edgar Wallace; personally, I highly recommend A.A. Milne's The Red House Mystery, a little-known treasure.

BTW, if anyone is looking for bargain golden-age books, Amazon's Thomas & Mercer imprint recently started re-issuing Gladys Mitchell's Mrs Bradley series, and they're currently $3.99 each. Also part of the KOLL library, so if you're a prime member you can borrow one a month for free. KOLL also has a few Nicholas Blake titles, plus Ian Fleming's Bond titles.

For any Kindlers, Endeavour Press is a UK digital reprint house which lately has been offering different freebies every week - usually a couple of mystery/thrillers, plus some history and light fiction. Most were previously published in the 80s/90s by trad publishers.

I picked these up free today:

Body Politic by J.M. Gregson

The Secret Generations by John Gardner

You can do an 'advanced search' by publisher from the Kindle Books page, sort by price - here's the current list for Endeavour:

http://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st_p...

This historical mystery, The Unquiet Bones, is free for Kindle (normally $14.99), at least in the U.S. Here is the link:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004LB4SDE/?...