Well, now that it's Kobo contest season again, I thought I'd re-mention some DRM-free @ Kobo backlist mystery titles that have a few nth-in-series introductory freebies for which you can follow up with couponable sequels.
These are all out from the BooksBNimble author's republishing consortium imprint managed by Edgar Award-winner Julie Smith (
SYKM,
Wikipedia), which mainly publishes backlist mystery/crime thrillers, although they do have a few newly-written books and stuff from other genres.
- The Kindness of Strangers by Julie Smith, 6th in her Edgar Award-winning Skip Langdon series of humorous police procedurals set in New Orleans, originally out from Fawcett in 1996.
- Trick Question by Edgar-nominee Tony Dunbar (SYKM), 3rd in his Tubby Dubonnet series of humorous mysteries starring a foodie lawyer, also set in New Orleans, originally out from Putnam in 1996.
- Shelter from the Storm, 4th in the Tubby Dubonnet series, originally out from Putnam in 1997.
More in these and other series by the same authors can be had mostly DRM-free (please remember to check the download info @ Kobo before purchase, since a few titles in the BBN catalogue are still DRM-ed, apparently as a result of having been uploaded that way before they realized that DRM-free was the way to go and it being a hassle to change stuff over due to authors losing their reviews and sales rankings etc.) and as I mentioned, couponable @ Kobo.
Here's some publisher auto-search linkage for the coupon-eligible portion of the BBN catalogue @
Kobo, should anything happen to strike your fancy.
Prices start at 99 cents and go to a fairly reasonable-looking $2.99-$3.99 range for mostly previously-published titles (some of these have been prior KDP Select freebies in the past, though, so you might want to check your archives, but they're now no longer exclusive at Amazon, should you wish to pick up ePub copies
pour encourager les autres multi-store re-offerings).