Kobo Canada has been running a long weekend sale (expires at the end of today, Dec 12th) on mysteries and thrillers for $4.99 CAD and under, which is actually pretty decent and has some titles not discounted elsewhere. A few of them are multi-store publisher promotions which may linger a little beyond the expiry, but a lot are Kobo-exclusives, as far as I can tell.
For aficionados of Nordic noir, there are 3 titles by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indrišason at $3.99 CAD from Random House Canada (this is a fairly low price for them, and they don't often get discounted from their usual $12 CAD mark), 2 by Norwegian Jo Nesbų from HarperCollins Canada for the same price (The Bat is a rather meh start to the Harry Hole series and I'd advise you to hold out for $2.99 unless you're desperate to start at the very beginning, with what's essentially a overseas trip prequel to the better stories set in actual Norway), some 99 cent ones from Finland's Kati Hiekkapelto and Norway's Gunnar Staalesen, and David Hewson's novelization of the popular Danish TV series Forbrydelsen (aka The Killing) and a 1st-in-series novel by Norway's Hans Olav Lahlum, both for $3.50 after VIP discount, which are $9.99 everywhere else that I checked.
Also, a bunch of Canadian mysteries from the smaller publishers, often by award-nominated authors, are on sale as well.
Read the night away with these bone-chilling thrillers main page, with categories:
Books to Make Your Blood Run Cold,
Chilly Thrillers from Scandinavia,
Chilly Thrillers from Canada,
Chilly Thrillers from Across the Pond (have some of the Nordic titles mixed in here),
Crime Thrillers and Murderous Mysteries,
Heart Pounding Romantic Suspense,
Cozy Mysteries to Warm Your Heart
,
Chilling Thrillers for Young Readers.
Speaking of Nordic mysteries, if you happen to read French, Gaļa Editions' Gaļa Polar imprint has put a whole bunch of their catalogue on $7.99 sale (regularly $13.99 and up), and they've got authors who've yet to be translated into English, such as Sweden's Fredrik Ekelund and Denmark's Anna Grue and Norway's Monica Kristensen (who unusually, writes mysteries set on the arctic island of Svalbard: there's a rather nice
interview here in English about her crime writing and scientific work):
Polars scandinaves : jusqu'ą 50% de rabais (also available at Amazon CA & iTunes CA, where there are a few extra books which for unfathomable reasons do not seem to exist at Kobo CA)
Their titles also happen to be redeemable for points, and at 4000 points per at the $7.99 mark, are better value than English-language books, which IIRC are 4800 points for a $5 title. (ETA:
This Gunnar Staalesen 3-book bundle is better value than buying the separate individual volumes (only two of which seem to be available at Kobo), and the omnibus includes a recipe for Bergen fish soup as well, in case you were wondering what the exclusive bonus material was.)
@ $3.49 CAD each (redeemable for 2800 points) some additional Nordic mystery bargains offered by Random House's Vintage Digital imprint (the rare couponable/VIP discount-eligible one) which are not part of the Kobo weekend sale:
- Oblivion by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indrišason (SYKM), latest in his Detective Erlendur series; SYKM says this is a prequel novel set in the 1970s, which you should be able to read standalone
- Calling Out For You & The Drowned Boy by Norwegian author Karin Fossum (SYKM), 5th & 11th in her Inspector Sejer series (if you've bought her books in the US, check the titles, since some of them vary by country)