If your reading preference is for crime, then this week’s Kindle offer from Crooked Cat Publishing is well worth considering.
There are three detective fiction books being promoted this
week.
1) Bad Moon Rising
By Frances di Plino
This is the first in the DI Paolo Storey crime series.
‘Tense, fast-paced and gripping’. No less than 41 reviews on Amazon UK.
One more soul is safe. Brought up believing sex is the
devil’s work, a killer only finds release once he has saved his victims’ souls.
Abiding by his vision, he marks them as his. A gift to guide his chosen ones on
the rightful path to redemption. Detective Inspector Paolo Storey is out to
stop him, but Paolo has problems of his own. Hunting down the killer as the
death toll rises, the lines soon blur between Paolo’s personal and professional
lives.
The D.I. Paolo Storey Crime Series:
Bad Moon Rising
Someday Never Comes
Call It Pretending
Looking For A Reason
The D.I. Paolo Storey Crime Series:
Bad Moon Rising
Someday Never Comes
Call It Pretending
Looking For A Reason
2) A Limited Justice
By Catriona King
This is the first in the DCI Marc Craig series, Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
With 29 Amazon reviews.
When a body is discovered at a petrol station, Belfast
D.C.I. Marc Craig is called to investigate. Within a day, a second body is
found. Then a third. This time, it’s personal. It’s someone he knows. With time
against him, Craig desperately tries to piece the case together, but will he
find the suspect before anyone else is killed?
DCI Marc Craig series
A Limited Justice
The Grass Tattoo
The Visitor
The Waiting Room
The Broken Shore
The Slowest Cut
The Coercion Key
The Careless Word
The History Suite
A Limited Justice
The Grass Tattoo
The Visitor
The Waiting Room
The Broken Shore
The Slowest Cut
The Coercion Key
The Careless Word
The History Suite
3) Spanish Eye
By Nik Morton
Featuring 22 cases from Leon Cazador, half-English,
half-Spanish Private Eye, ‘in his own words’.
Through the eyes of Leon Cazador, half-English, half-Spanish
private investigator, we experience the human condition in many guises. This
collection covers twenty two cases, some insightful, some humorous, and some
tragic. The tales evoke tears and laughter, pleasure at the downfall of
criminals, and anger at arrogant evil-doers. Overall, Morton’s deceptive
easy-flowing style confirms universal values.
Sometimes, Cazador operates in disguise under several
aliases, among them Carlos Ortiz Santos, a modern day Simon Templar; he is
wholly against the ungodly and tries to hold back the encroaching night of
unreason.
Cazador translated into English means hunter. In his
adventurous life he has witnessed many travesties of justice; he is a man
driven to hunt down felons of all kinds, to redress the balance of good against
evil.
He combats drug-traffickers, grave robbers, al-Qaeda
infiltrators, misguided terrorists and conmen. Dodgy Spanish developers and
shady expat English face his wrath. Traders in human beings, stolen vehicles
and endangered species meet their match. Kidnappers, crooked mayors and
conniving Lotharios come within his orbit of ire.
“Prickly Pair” amusingly depicts a married couple who appear
to serve others while merely serving themselves. “Night Fishing” is a
sympathetic examination of a fisherman who risks all by bending the rules to
give his blind wife Lucia a special gift. “Cry Wolf” illustrates that not
everything is what it seems. “Off Plan” and “Lonely Hearts” are about folks
guilty only of trust. “Grave Concerns” poignantly presents a terrible moral
dilemma for a father and his daughter. “Pueblo Pride” is more about what the
villagers may lose rather than what they can give. “Gone Missing” is an
intriguing day-in-the-life tale, while “Inn Time” is a heartfelt plea for
peace.
Leon Cazador fights injustice in all its forms and often
metes out his own rough justice. It’s what he does.
Only 8 Amazon reviews?
‘…I experienced a myriad of emotions. I laughed,
cried, and became incensed. I cheered and clapped, but most of all I felt a confirmation
of universal values.’ – Elizabeth Sullivan, author
‘Spanish
Eye is a marvellous collection of short stories linked by a common
protagonist, the private investigator Leon Cazador. Yet, each story is unique
in setting and plot, drawing on the author's remarkable breadth of knowledge
and extraordinarily full life, spiced by a genuine loathing for evil and
wrong-doing. We learn a great deal about the history, culture, lore, and
landscape of Spain and meet a diverse cast of characters, as Cazador sees to it
that a variety of miscreants, petty and grand, are appropriately done in. Mr.
Morton is a gifted writer, a modern-day Aesop, only more complex, providing
entertaining stories, each with a moral. You have no idea of the treat that is
in store for you.’ – Charles D Ameringer, professor emeritus of Latin
American history at Penn State University, author.
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