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A couple of titles in the Jacqueline Kirby series by Elizabeth Peters have dropped at Kindle US. These are not great sale prices, but OTOH, Peters' books tend not to drop much at all. This is one of Peters' shorter and lesser known series (compared to Amelia Peabody), but I quite like the snarky Jacqueline...

The Seventh Sinner, #1, at $3.99
link: https://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Sinne.../dp/B000FCK3I2

Spoiler:

At first, Jean Suttman thought she had died and gone to Heaven when she was granted the opportunity to study in Rome. But the body that's lying in the ancient subterranean Temple of Mithra—the murdered corpse of a repulsive and disliked fellow student—isn't her idea of heavenly. Now she is truly frightened, not just because small "accidents" seem to be occurring around her with disturbing regularity. It's the ever-increasing certainty that someone, for some unknown reason, is ruthlessly determined to do her harm. Jean's innocent underground excursion into a sacred pagan place has trapped her in something dark and terrifying, and even the knowledge that practical, perceptive fellow American Jacqueline Kirby is on the case won't ease her fears. Because there's only so far Jean Suttman can run . . . and no escape for her except death.

The Murders of Richard III, #2, at $2.99
link: https://www.amazon.com/Murders-Richa.../dp/B000FC1VAQ

Spoiler:

In a remote English manor house, modern admirersof the much-maligned King Richard III—one of Shakespeare's most extraordinary villains—are gathered for a grand weekend of dress-up and make-believe murder. But the fun ends when the masquerade turns more sinister . . . and deadly. Jacqueline Kirby, an American librarian on hand for the festivities, suddenly finds herself in the center of strange, dark doings . . . and racing to untangle a murderous puzzle before history repeats itself in exceptionally macabre ways.