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Old 03-23-2017, 02:36 PM   #355
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Soho Press has rotated their sale specials (couponable/VIP-eligible at Kobo CA, but apparently not in the US any more):

@ 99 cents: The List: A Novella by British author Mick Herron (SYKM, Wikipedia), part of his Gold Dagger Award-winning Slough House series about MI-5 intelligence agents banished for failures. This has been at the $2.99 for as long as I can recall seeing it (a few years, by now), so it's a pretty cheap price.

@ $1.99 for the 1st-in-series, and then $3.89 CAD at Kobo CA/$4.99 USD for the rest:
  • PI Jade de Jong series by Jassy MacKenzie (SYKM), starring a private investigator in South Africa. The 1st novel was a Shamus finalist, and the series is up to 5 in total.
  • Kramer & Zondi series by the late British writer James McClure (SYKM, Wikipedia), starring an Afrikaner detective and a Bantu police sergeant in South Africa, starting during the 1970s (has its own Wikipedia page). 1st novel was a Gold Dagger Award-winner, and there are 8 in the series.
Also @ $1.99 for the 1st-in-series, but no discount on the others: Outsider in Amsterdam by the late Dutch author Janwillem van de Wetering (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a translation of the 1st in his long-running and highly popular Grijsptra & De Gier series starring cops in Amsterdam during the 1970s. I've read this one and thought it was okay, but something of a time capsule in terms of retro sensibility.

And if you happen to read French, Kobo CA is also offering two fairly good promotions on francophone mystery/thrillers:

About a half-dozen of award-winning Québécois author Martin Michaud's (Wikipedia FR)'s mystery/thrillers are just $4.99 (couponable and also redeemable for points), including all of his popular Victor Lessard series. They regularly cost about twice as much. The dedicated promo page which can be accessed from the usual Kobo CA promotions page is malfunctioning, but you can pull up a list of all his sale titles via the regular author search.

They're also offering 2x points on selected already-discounted francophone thrillers until March 27th, with three categories available on this page. It's mainly works in translation by Stephen King, Donna Leon, and German author Sebastian Fitzek. But there are some native French authors in there such as Ian Manook (Wikipedia FR), who writes the Yeruldegger police procedural series set in Mongolia, which I've been meaning to try for a while, and there are volumes of Swedish author Viveca Sten's (SYKM, Wikipedia) Sandhamm Murder series which haven't yet been translated into English by AmazonCrossing (and won't be available until next year), going for half-off.

The Viveca Sten novels are also on sale in France as a special promotion from publisher Albin Michel, according to this shopping page @ Chapitre.com.
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