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Murder and Machinery

Letterbox, my novel of mystery and mayhem in the English countryside, is FREE for Kindle today only to celebrate 7,700 wonderful followers on my Facebook page, and 620 here on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ! Download, enjoy, and please leave a review on Amazon and Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.
Letterbox

Letterbox, my novel of mystery and mayhem in the English countryside, is FREE for Kindle today only to celebrate 7,700 wonderful followers on my Facebook page, and 620 here on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ! Download, enjoy, and please leave a review on Amazon and Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.

Thank you all for reading, reviewing, and simply sharing your passion for books. Best wishes to you all for 2024. Let's make it the most bookish year yet. :)

I've just signed up for Kindle Unlimited and I'm looking for mystery novels, novellas, collections, and anthologies to read and review here on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. Mystery writers and fans, give me your suggestions! But before you do, please make sure you only send suggestions that fit the following criteria:

1) Kindle Unlimited books only.
2) Fairplay / traditional mysteries. This means the reader is given all the tools to solve the mystery before the detective reveals all.
3) For novels, no longer than 70,000 words. That's more than enough words to tell a ripping mystery without diluting it. 50,000 to 65,000 is the sweet spot for me.

I prefer private investigators and puzzles inspired by the mysteries of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. I particularly like clever locked-room and closed-circle mysteries with evocative settings. Think Doyle, Christie, and Carr, for example.

To celebrate 7,600 wonderful Facebook followers () with impeccable taste in books, I've made "Oscar Tremont, Investigator of the Strange and Inexplicable" FREE to download for Kindle today (Sunday the 3rd) only! This collection features Oscar's first four cases, which took place in Australia before he moved to his wife's homeland of Brittany. Three novellas and a short story perfect for all the armchair detectives out there. Oscar Tremont, Investigator of the Strange and Inexplicable

* The Hunt for the Stayne Fortune
* The Ghosts of Walhalla
* The Witch at the Window
* The Secret of the Severed Hand

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In a broken world, lighting a match is an act of rebellion...
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The Tunnel Runner is FREE for #Kindle today only. Download, enjoy, and please leave a review on Amazon and #goodreads.
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One of those topics that keeps cropping up whenever writers discuss the nuts and bolts of their craft is point of view. You, as a reader, may have a preference between first-person narrative and third-person omniscient or limited. Before I start writing a story, I ask myself a number of questions and ultimately try to make a decision based on what I think will give the reader the best experience. For instance, I started writing my short mysteries involving Oscar Tremont, Investigator of the Strange and Inexplicable, in first person but soon changed to third, and it was a difficult decision.