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Old 10-14-2014, 06:07 PM   #140
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A few assorted couponable sale mysteries @ Kobo (prices valid in Canada & presumably US, possibly elsewhere and likely price-matched minus couponage in your preferred store).

Jade Lady Burning by Martin Limón (SYKM), out from Soho Crime for $1.99, 1st in his Sueño & Bascom 60s-set series with investigative US military police officers in Seoul, South Korea. The 3rd book in this was a finalist for the Hammett Prize.

Canadian publisher Dundurn has marked down a select number of titles on red-cover-bannered "Special Offer" at $3.49 (Dundurn usually prices their mysteries around $6.99 and up), no idea how long this will last.

They've a bunch of things on sale across all genres (linkage if you want to go through them), including some YA & literary fiction and some Canadian law non-fiction, but these were the specifically mystery titles:

9 volumes of Barbara Fradkin's (SYKM, Wikipedia) Inspector Green series, a police procedural set in Ottawa, are discounted, which is a modest savings off the price of the 9-book omnibus bundle also available, even before you add in the added discount effect of coupons. This series has won 2 Arthur Ellis Best Novel awards and also been finalist for a 3rd. With that kind of reputation, I'm definitely getting at least the first one, Do or Die to try: linkage to pull up all of Fradkin's stuff

(ETA: It turns out that Inspector Green #1, Do or Die, was an iTunes Canada freebie sometime in the past, so you might want to check your account for it if you've a compatible iDevice/sufficiently upgraded Mac to read it on.)

2 mysteries by Jeffrey Round (SYKM) in his Dan Sharp series starring a missing persons investigator who's also a gay single father in Toronto. I actually bought the 1st one of these back when Books on Board was still operating and started reading it a few days ago before I got sidetracked by finishing up the Billy Boyle books (1st volume also on $1.99 special upthread from Soho) I'd bought ages ago. It seemed like a decent read so far, but admittedly I didn't get more than a few chapters into it. Again, buying the individuals with coupons is cheaper than the current omnibus price: linkage for the lot of Round's books if you're interested

Cold Mourning by Brenda Chapman, 1st (and thus far only) in her Stonechild and Rouleau series starring a female First Nations officer set in, you guessed it, Ontario. This looks interesting, and I think I'll get it if the sample is promising enough.

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