FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Book of Love by Kelly Link is £2 on Amazon UK (Still full price on Kobo)
Link's highly anticipated first novel (and there's another one in the works!)

Now $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

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The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
First in a new series.

A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist.

In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death both terrifying and impossible.

Assigned to investigate is Ana Dolabra, a detective whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities. Rumor has it that she wears a blindfold at all times, and that she can solve impossible cases without even stepping outside the walls of her home.

At her side is her new assistant, Dinios Kol, magically altered in ways that make him the perfect aide to Ana’s brilliance. Din is at turns scandalized, perplexed, and utterly infuriated by his new superior—but as the case unfolds and he watches Ana’s mind leap from one startling deduction to the next, he must admit that she is, indeed, the Empire’s greatest detective.

As the two close in on a mastermind and uncover a scheme that threatens the Empire itself, Din realizes he’s barely begun to assemble the puzzle that is Ana Dolabra—and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect.

The Tainted Cup mixes the charms of detective fiction with brilliant world-building to deliver a fiendishly clever mystery that’s at once instantly recognizable and thrillingly new.

[Kieran Seymour]

Stuart Turton's The Last Murder at the End of the World is today's £1.99 Daily Deal at Kobo here in the UK. Amazon appear to have price-matched, but they're not advertising the fact on their deals pages. It only came out at the end of March, so a decent price.

Bonus for anyone with Kobo VIP membership - only £1.79 and 5x Super Points.

Kobo | Amazon

Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists.

Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And they learn the murder has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay.

If the murder isn't solved within 107 hours, the fog will smother the island – and everyone on it.

But the security system has also wiped everyone's memories of exactly what happened the night before, which means that someone on the island is a murderer – and they don't even know it…