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https://www.amazon.com/Night-Raven-C...s%2C196&sr=8-2

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Crisis is one of Felix Francis' continuations of his father's (Dick Francis) horse themed mysteries. I've read a lot of the Felix one and enjoyed most of them, including this one. Crisis is on sale right now for $1.99, which is the first time I've noticed it on sale in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079R6QW8P
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B079R6QW8P
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/crisis-31

Spoiler:

New York Times--bestselling author Felix Francis returns with his newest edge-of-your-seat horseracing thriller in the Dick Francis tradition.

Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses, including the short-priced favorite for the Derby. There is far more to the "simple" fire than initially meets the eye...for a start, human remains are found among the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery victim?

Harry knows very little about horses, indeed he positively dislikes them, but he is thrust unwillingly into the world of thoroughbred racing, where the standard of care of the equine stars is far higher than that of the humans who attend to them.

The Chadwick family is a dysfunctional racing dynasty. Resentment between the generations is rife and sibling rivalry bubbles away like volcanic magma beneath a thin crust of respectability.

Harry represents the Middle Eastern owner of the Derby favourite and, as he delves deeper into the unanswered questions surrounding the horse's demise, he ignites a fuse that blows the volcano sky-high. Can Harry solve the riddle before he is bumped off by the fallout?

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A Great Reckoning has been on sale a bunch in the UK, but this is the first time I've noticed it on sale in the US for $2.99 or less, which is normally my limit for posting. And...it's $2.99 right now at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BBXF0HC
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01BBXF0HC
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-great-reckoning

Originally Posted by soulfuldog

Couple of the excellent Inspector Gamache series (books 1 & 12) on offer in UK

A Great Reckoning, Louise Penny - 99p
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01DM0JH30/
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/a-great-reckoning-1

{edit other book}

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Odds on Miss Seeton is the fifth Miss Seeton book, and, per SYKM, the last one written by Heron Carvic. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US, and it's discountable at Kobo...where Partners22 still works for 40% off on one book per checkout...

Odds on Miss Seeton
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0751JKX64
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0751JKX64
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/odds-on-miss-seeton

And I also noticed a couple of other Carvic/Seeton books semi-long-term at $0.99 as well

Picture Miss Seeton, #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075738JZ3
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B075738JZ3
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/picture-miss-seeton

Miss Seeton Sings, #4
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07542MNKL
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07542MNKL
not on sale at Kobo US

And if you like these, the rest of the series, at least the ones published by Farrago, are reasonably priced at $2.99 each at Kindle US, and mostly $2.99 to $3.99 (and discountable) at Kobo US.

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Now $1.99 in the US...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FS7B6P2
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07FS7B6P2
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/metropolis-52

Originally Posted by sufue

Metropolis is the 14th and last (since the author passed away last year) in the Bernie Gunther series by Philip Kerr. Although last published, it is, however, per SYKM, a prequel. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07C7F7W5X

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Moonlight Mile is the sixth in Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro series. It's $1.99 right now in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003VIWO4S
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B003VIWO4S
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/moonlight-mile-3

Spoiler:

Moonlight Mile is the first Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro suspense novel in more than a decade from the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane. An explosive tale of vengeance and redemption—the brilliant sequel to Gone, Baby, Gone—Moonlight Mile returns Lehane’s unforgettable and deeply human detective duo to the mean streets of blue collar Boston to investigate the second disappearance of Amanda McCready, now sixteen years old. After his remarkable success with Mystic River, Shutter Island, and The Given Day, the celebrated author whom the Washington Post praises as, “one of those brave new detective stylists who is not afraid of fooling around with the genre’s traditions,” returns to his roots—and the result, as always, is electrifying.

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Ten Thousand Islands is the seventh Doc Ford book by Randy Wayne White. It's $1.99 right now at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AFZ902O
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00AFZ902O
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ten-thousand-islands

Spoiler:

Government agent-turned-marine biologist Doc Ford sails an endless sea of questions when he agrees to investigate a death from the past. Years ago, off Florida’s Gulf Coast, a teenaged girl found an ancient gold medallion. Then, she began having nightmares. Then she was found hanging from a tree.

Now, years later, the girl’s mother is being terrorized with break-ins, phone calls with no one there—and her daughter’s grave has been dug up. Somebody wants that medallion.

The search for answers will lead Doc through a shadowy world of ancient ritual and modern corruption, to an evil that was born in the past—but lives in the present…

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He Shall Thunder in the Sky is the twelfth in the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC123C
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000FC123C
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/he-...der-in-the-sky

Spoiler:

“Passion among the pyramids. Forged antiquities. A country at war. A camel in the garden. A cameo by Lawrence of Arabia. Add in Peters’s trademark intelligent plotting, engaging characters, and stylish writing and we can hardly ask for anything more.”

—Cincinnati Enquirer

One of the most beloved characters in mystery/suspense fiction, archeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody bravely faces gravest peril in Cairo on the eve of World War One in New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters’s magnificent Egyptian adventure, He Shall Thunder in the Sky. The San Francisco Examiner calls these heart-racing exploits of Amelia and her courageous family, the Emersons, “pure delight.” But perhaps the New York Times Book Review states it best: “Between Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it’s Amelia—in wit and daring—by a landslide.”

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Bone to be Wild is the fifteenth book in the Sarah Booth Delaney series by Carolyn Haines. It's $2.99 right now in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OXEL8HI
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bone-to-be-wild

Spoiler:

Sarah Booth Delaney is heartbroken: her fiancé Graf Milieu has decided to move to Hollywood permanently, leaving their relationship in shambles. Sarah Booth has a perfect distraction, however, in the form of the Black and Orange Halloween ball her best friends are throwing in New Orleans. Sarah Booth plans to dance the night away to the swinging tunes of her old flame Scott Hampton's blues band. But just as the party gets going, Scott receives a mysterious message that threatens his life and the lives of his bandmates. Sarah Booth knows that a new case is just what she needs to take her mind off her failed relationship with Graf, and she's ready to help Scott investigate. And then the message turns from threat to reality when the bartender from Scott's club is gunned down in a drive-by. Enlisting Sheriff Coleman Peters and the rest of her friends from Zinnia, Mississippi, Sarah Booth is caught in a race against the clock as she tries to stop a killer from striking again.

With a twist around every corner, Carolyn Haines will delight readers with Sarah Booth Delaney's latest zany adventure in Bone to be Wild.

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A Poisoned Season is the second Lady Emily title by Tasha Alexander. It's $1.99 right now in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010SIPA8
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0010SIPA8
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-poisoned-season

Spoiler:

London's social season is in full swing, and Victorian aristocracy is atwitter over a certain gentleman who claims to be the direct descendant of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Adding to their fascination with all things French, an audacious cat burglar is systematically stealing valuable items that once belonged to the ill–fated queen.

But things take a dark turn. The owner of one of the pilfered treasures is found murdered after the theft is reported in the newspapers, and the mysterious thief develops a twisted obsession with Lady Emily Ashton. It takes all of Lady Emily's wit and perseverance to unmask her stalker and ferret out the murderer, while faced with a brewing scandal that threatens both her reputation and her romance with the dashing Colin Hargreaves.

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More than three years later, again $1.99 in the US. The links are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

The Burglar in the Library is the 8th in the Bernie Rhodenbarr/Burglar series by Lawrence Block. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Titles in this series don't go on sale very often, so I'm happy to see this one...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEI1FO
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...in-the-library

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The first three titles in James Benn's Billy Boyle series (which has one of the best series premises around, IMO) are on sale right now in the US and UK. As I've mentioned before though, the rest of the books in the series are very expensive and rarely go on sale. So if you like the first three, you'll have to go to your local library (or not-so-local library - luckily MR has a thread for that...) or end up spending too much!

Billy Boyle, #1, $2.99/£1.89
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HYHAGM
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/billy-boyle
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004HYHAGM

The First Wave, #2, $1.99/£1.42
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HYHA8A
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-first-wave
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004HYHA8A

Blood Alone, #3, $3.99/£2.59
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HYHA9Y
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/blood-alone
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004HYHA9Y

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Open Road titles don't often go on sale in the UK, so I post them when I see them, unlike in the US, where they tend to go on sale a lot. So here's an omnibus of three Masao Masuto books (# 5-7) on sale at Kindle UK for £2.39, which is a great price if you need all three, and still darn good if you just need two. And it's also on sale for $2.99 in the US, and is discountable at Kobo...where Partners22 is still good for 40% off...

As I've mentioned before, this was one of the first series I read back when just branching out from Agatha Christie and Rex Stout, and I quite enjoyed it at the time. It is interesting in that it tackled some of the ethnic/racial issues of the time, but still can be a little jarring in some of the type-casting if you don't keep in mind the era in which the series was written. It reminds me a little of John Ball's Virgil Tibbs titles in that way. So just be forewarned if the anachronism might bother you. But the mysteries/cases themselves are really good police procedurals. I reread The Case of the Sliding Pool, which is one of the books in this omnibus, not too long ago, and still enjoyed it.

Oh yeah, and the author is EV Cunningham, which is a pen name for Howard Fast. Also, all three of these were free individually back in the Open Road freebie-thon in Dec, 2016, so check carefully before you buy.

The Masao Masuto Mysteries Volume Two: The Case of the Sliding Pool, The Case of the Kidnapped Angel, and The Case of the Murdered Mackenzie
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L8VZYK5
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...ies-volume-two
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07L8VZYK5

Spoiler:

A collection of thrilling murder mysteries featuring “an unusually interesting detective” from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Spartacus (The Washington Star).

Japanese-American Beverly Hills homicide detective Masao Masuto is a karate expert, a devotee of roses, and a Zen Buddhist. He does his job with a cool, caustic wit—and with surprising force when necessary. He possesses a singular sense of justice, taking action on his own and occasionally pushing the boundaries of the law . . .

The Case of the Sliding Pool: After a decades-old hidden grave is uncovered by a rainstorm, Detective Masuto must look into the distant past to find a murderer who was very good at his job—and who is about to come out of retirement.

“An interesting conception.” —The New York Times

The Case of the Kidnapped Angel: The wife of one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars has been kidnapped for ransom—one that is willingly paid. But Masuto doesn’t believe the worried husband’s performance. He suspects the payoff was for something deadly . . .

“A talent for all times.” —The Moscow News

The Case of the Murdered McKenzie: When a faded movie beauty is accused of killing her rich husband, it seems like an open-and-shut case—until Masuto investigates. And it soon appears that murder is only the beginning of an even more shocking conspiracy.

“One of the best in the series.” —The New York Times

As witty as he is wise, Detective Masuto is the brilliant creation of “one of the 20th century’s busiest writers” known for “creating stories that even his critics admired as page-turners (The New York Times).

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Several years later, again $1.99 in the US. @tch65721's link is still good for Kindle US, and here's the Kobo US link...

Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/x-is-for

Originally Posted by tch65721

X (Kinsey Millhone Book 24) by Sue Grafton - $1.99

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TY3ZKJA

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The Calleshire Chronicles, Volume One, contains the first three titles in one of my top five favorite series, Catherine Aird's CD Sloan series. This is a series that I have to read alone, since, even though I've read most of the books multiple times, I'm still likely to laugh out loud without warning from time to time.

The omnibus includes The Religious Body, Henrietta Who?, and The Stately Home Murder (apa The Complete Steel). It has dropped to $3.99 in the US, and it's discountable at Kobo US!

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CNCNBJD
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07CNCNBJD
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...les-volume-one

Spoiler:

A trio of sharp-witted British whodunits featuring Detective Inspector Sloan—from a CWA Diamond Dagger winner and “a most ingenious” author (The New Yorker).

In her debut novel in the long-running mystery series, The Religious Body, Catherine Aird introduced the sleuthing team of shrewd Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and his less-than-shrewd sidekick, Detective Constable William Crosby, in the fictional County of Calleshire, England. Over the course of twenty-four crime novels, the award-winning author has maintained the perfect balance between cozy village mystery and police procedural.

The Religious Body: When Sister Anne’s body is found at the bottom of a steep set of cellar stairs, her veil askew and her head crushed, it’s clear she’s been viciously attacked. Heaven help Detective Inspector Sloan as he’s called to the Convent of St. Anselm to determine why someone would want to murder a nun.

Henrietta Who?: In a quiet English village, a woman’s body is found in the road, the victim of a hit-and-run. Miles away, her daughter, Henrietta, is given the bad news. But an autopsy brings even more shocking news: Not only was Mrs. Jenkins’s death no accident, the woman never had a child. If Henrietta is not her daughter, who is she? It’s up to Detective Inspector Sloan to find out.

The Stately Home Murder: To survive financial hard times, the Earl of Ornum has opened his estate to tourists. One curious young boy sees a full suit of armor and lifts the visor . . . only to see a face staring back at him. Now Ornum House is a crime scene, with Sloan and Crosby determined to discover how a murdered man ended up in knight’s garb.