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Both titles in the Natalia Monte series by Jan Merete Weiss have dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

These Dark Things
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/These-Things-...dp/B004OR1KT0/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/these-dark-things-3

Spoiler:

First in the police procedural series, this “plot [is] replete with shocks . . . Her vivid portrayal of Naples, in its glory and its gloom, is unforgettable” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).

When a college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastery, Capt. Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. Could the killer be a professor the student was sleeping with? A blind monk who loved her? Or a member of the brutal criminal organization known as the Camorra? As Monte pursues her investigation, the crime families of Naples go to war over garbage-hauling contracts, and across the city heaps of trash pile up, uncollected. When one of Monte’s childhood friends is caught up in the violence, her loyalties are tested, and each move she makes threatens her own life and the lives of those she loves.

A Few Drops of Blood
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Drops-Blood-C...dp/B00G8EJZ76/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-few-drops-of-blood-3

Spoiler:

An “atmospheric mystery” featuring a female police captain in Naples, Italy (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

When the bodies of two men are found, shockingly posed, in the garden of an elderly countess, Capt. Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case. Soon she finds herself shuttling between Naples’s decadent art galleries and violent criminal underworld. If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime, Natalia must deal with not only her own complicated past and allegiances, but also those of the city as a whole.

From the author of These Dark Things and starring a detective with “one foot solidly planted in law enforcement [while] the other dangles in her old Naples neighborhood, which is awash in organized crime,” *A *Few Drops of Blood is “highly recommended for police-procedural and international-crime-fiction readers” (Booklist).