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Well, fwiw, I bought this for my Kindle at $1.99. Thanks! Holiday reading!
I absolutely agree that $1.99 is too low except to kick start some sales. Another Canadian small press that offers a fair selection of mystery tales is Dundurn Press. E-book list is $8.99 I believe but the everyday selling price is $7.09. With occasional discounts, it's easy to find these at $5 and change. A number of cozy mysteries sell at Kobo for $6.29 -- that range -- call is $5.99 rather than $4.99 -- is relatively risk free for the reader but still puts real dollars in the publisher's and author's pocket.
For authors with five or more titles, sliding scales are worth examining: $5.99 for the older titles, $7.99 for the current and next to most current, title. You might offer the first title (and oldest) for $3.99 as a teaser.
Also, working in these ranges you have somewhere (down) to go for temporary sales.
And don't be afraid, later on, to go up $9.99 for new work: Louise Penny is sold that way. Still Life is $2.99; the other books are $7.99 and the most recent title, Bury Your Dead, is $9.99>
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