Three titles on sale for a bit more than I usually like to purchase at, but the first two are titles by authors whose books rarely go on sale, and the other is set in such an interesting time period that I'm probably going to buy it, especially since I have a yen for historical mysteries...
Hollow Mountain is the third in the Spike Sanguinetti series by Thomas Mogford. I've read and enjoyed the first two, so I may (or may not) ante up $4.23 for it at Kindle US. For some reason (perhaps because they have a road running across their airport, which has to close (the road, not the airport
) whenever a plane takes off or lands), I've always wanted to visit Gibraltar, and I tend to enjoy books set there.
link:
https://www.amazon.com/Hollow-Mounta...dp/B00J5ED8E2/
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Danger has followed the lawyer Spike Sanguinetti back to Gibraltar.
The disturbing question of what happened to Spike's girlfriend, Zahra, is still unanswered. He hasn't heard from her since she vanished in Malta months ago, when suddenly his phone rings. It's Zahra, but she sounds strange. She tells him that he has to stop looking for her and that if he doesn't, Žigon will come after those closest to him. Then she hangs up.
When Peter Galliano, Spike's partner in the law firm, is hospitalized by a mysterious hit-and-run accident, and a woman asks him to investigate the suspected suicide of her husband, Spike finds himself on a perilous path that draws him into international politics and leads him, finally, to the hollow mountain.
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The Strangling on the Stage is third from last (so far) in the Fethering series by Simon Brett. I've read and enjoyed several of the early titles in this series in DTB, but since I've shifted to e-books, and Brett's e-books are pretty pricey, I haven't read many.
Strangling has dropped to $3.55 at Kindle US.
link:
https://www.amazon.com/Strangling-St...dp/B00HS2C0MY/
The Hot Country is the first in the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series by Robert Olen Butler. It has gone on sale for $3.91 at Kindle US. I'm usually reluctant to spend that much on a new-to-me author, and on a book that calls itself a thriller rather than the mystery, but the setting/timing (Mexican civil war, during US invasion of Vera Cruz, in the run-up to WWI) make this sound pretty intriguing to me. So I'm probably going to buy this one...
link:
https://www.amazon.com/Country-Chris...dp/B008DYIGR4/
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In The Hot Country, Christopher Marlowe Cobb (“Kit”), the swashbuckling early 20th century American newspaper war correspondent travels to Mexico in April and May of 1914, during that country’s civil war, the American invasion of Vera Cruz and the controversial presidency of Victoriano Huerta, El Chacal (The Jackal). Covering the war in enemy territory and sweltering heat, Cobb falls in love with Luisa, a young Mexican laundress, who is not as innocent as she seems.
The intrepid war reporter soon witnesses a priest being shot. The bullet rebounds on the cross the holly man wears around his neck and leaves him unharmed. Cobb employs a young pickpocket to help him find out the identity of the sniper and, more importantly, why important German officials are coming into the city in the middle of the night from ammunition ships docked in the port.
An exciting tale of intrigue and espionage, Butler’s powerful crime-fiction debut is a thriller not to be missed.
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