Some foreign mysteries in translation on sale @ Kobo (couponable/VIP eligible; presumably price-matched at the other usual retailers as well).
@ $1.99 in North America from
Steerforth's Pushkin Press imprint (linkage for the lot), about a dozen vintage mysteries from authors like France's Pierre Boileau (
Wikipedia), including the novel which Alfred Hitchcock's film
Vertigo was based upon, Japan's Soji Shimada (
Wikipedia), Italy's Augusto De Angelis (
Wikipedia), Sweden's Martin Holmén (
Wikipedia SV), and more.
Also, both
Kobo CA &
UK's CyberMonday sales have some good markdown mysteries in them. Some Kobo UK ones which are both £0.99 and eligible for the 3x bonus points (only selected titles are part of the bonus offer) are:
- The Vanished by Danish authors Lotte & Søren Hammer (SYKM), 2nd (actually 3rd, but the real 2nd has yet to be translated) in their Konrad Simonsen series set in Copenhagen. For comparison, currently $20+ CAD at Kobo CA.
- Blackout by Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson (SYKM), 3rd (actually chronologically 2nd, but translated out of order) in his Dark Iceland series set in a small fishing village in Iceland. 1st & 2nd published have previously been £0.99 specials which you might have picked up earlier.
- Blessed Are Those Who Thirst & Death of the Demon by Norwegian “Queen of Crime” Anne Holt (SYKM), 2nd & 3rd in her Hanne Wilhelmsen series starring a lesbian cop in Oslo. 1st & 2nd have previously been $1.99 North American specials which you might have picked up previously.
- The Ice Child by Swedish author Camilla Läckberg (SYKM), 9th in her Hedström & Falck series pairing a writer and a cop in a small fishing village in Sweden. A big chunk of the earlier novels have been on sale in North America and the UK in the past couple of years.
ETA: also, the late Umberto Eco's historical political mystery/thriller,
Number Zero, is just $2.99 CAD from Houghton Mifflin Harcount (couponable in Canada).