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[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by sufue

All five titles in the Alec Blume series by Conor Fitzgerald are $1.99 today at BN/Nook as part of the Nook Daily Find.

TItles are:

• The Dogs of Rome
• The Fatal Touch
• The Namesake
• The Memory Key
• Bitter Remedy

Oddly enough, these are not matched at either Kindle or Kobo US as of now. So, if you want them, but don't want to hassle with BN/Nook, you may have to price match to Kobo.

link to the BN page with all five: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22...=mode+matchall

P.S. For the moderator - I have no idea what an affiliate tag might look like in a BN URL, but don't see anything that jumps out at me in this one. If there is something in there, please just fix it - please don't delete the whole thing and read me the riot act.

Amazon.com today - see screen shot. It looks like these are now on sale there, along with 2 more.

[sufue]

Darn! And I went to all the trouble yesterday of price matching at Kobo the two I still needed... Sigh!

Originally Posted by DuskyRose

As of this morning, #1, 2, 3 and 5 are $1.99 at Amazon.

[sufue]

A couple of price drops on titles in two (very different) series that I both quite like...

Vita Brevis is the next-to-most-recent (2016) in the Gaius Petreius Ruso/Tilla series by Ruth Downie. It's $1.99 at Kindle US, not at Kobo US, at least as of now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DM9Q5U4

Spoiler:

Ruso and Tilla's excitement at arriving in Rome with their new baby daughter is soon dulled by their discovery that the grand facades of polished marble mask an underworld of corrupt landlords and vermin-infested tenements. There are also far too many doctors--some skilled--but others positively dangerous.

Ruso thinks he has been offered a reputable medical practice only to find that his predecessor Doctor Kleitos has fled, leaving a dead man in a barrel on the doorstep and the warning, “Be careful who you trust.” Distracted by the body and his efforts to help a friend win the hand of a rich young heiress, Ruso makes a grave mistake, causing him to question both his competence and his integrity.

With Ruso's reputation under threat, he and Tilla must protect their small family from Doctor Kleitos's debt collectors and find allies in their new home while they track down the vanished doctor and find out the truth about the heiress's dead father--Ruso's patient--and the unfortunate man in the barrel.

Sleeping Dogs is the next-to-most-recent (2015) in the Spike Sanguinetti series by Thomas Mogford. It's also $1.99 at Kindle US, not at Kobo US, at least as of now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V6FLXEA

Spoiler:

Haunted by his failure to prevent the violent murders of two innocent women, Gibraltarian lawyer Spike Sanguinetti loses himself in his work. After much persuasion, he joins an old flame, Detective Sergeant Jessica Navarro, for a well-earned rest at a friend's villa on Corfu's beautiful northeast coast. There they meet philanthropist Leo Hoffmann, elderly scion of the powerful Hoffmann banking family.

Leo has just unearthed an important archaeological site on the Corfiot coastline, but the lavish celebrations to mark the event are interrupted when the body of a young Albanian bludgeoned to death is discovered at the site. When a local man is arrested for the murder, Spike reluctantly agrees to defend him pro bono in what appears to be an “open and shut” case. Yet the more Spike delves into the facts surrounding the victim's death, the more he starts to doubt the official version of events.

As news emerges that a vulnerable young woman has gone missing, a frantic search begins, which sees the idyllic holiday island transformed into an arena of old rivalries, political corruption, and murder. Uncovering secrets so damaging that those involved will go to any lengths to protect them, Spike begins to realize that some sleeping dogs can never be allowed to lie.

[Tarana]

Robin Cook's Pandemic is $1.99. Medical thriller. Love this writer.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Pandemic-Robi...okbubemail1-20
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/pan...f2DP7z05i.FAzg
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pan...dpid=tekz25v83

Willing to Die by Lisa Jackson is $2.99
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Willing-Alvar...okbubemail1-20
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wil..._9kVbssxGt0dRQ
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wil...dpid=tekz25v83

[sufue]

The Crossword Mysteries Holiday Collection is a collection of four titles in the Annabella Graham/Rosco Polycrates Crossword series by Nero Blanc (pen name for Cordelia Frances Biddle and Steve Zettler).

Titles included are:

• A Crossworder's Holiday
• A Crossworder's Gift
• Wrapped Up in Crosswords
• A Crossworder's Delight

It is $2.99 today as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, not matched, at least as of now, at Kobo. It's a little hard to imagine why this holiday bundle is on sale in March, but maybe we all need a bit of cheer at the moment or something ???

Note that this was part of the Open Road Humble Bundle a while back, so check carefully before you buy!

link: https://www.amazon.com/Crossword-Mys...dp/B07JHCLHV5/

Spoiler:

Four holiday whodunits in one—the perfect present for puzzle fans! “Light-hearted capers . . . Each as frothy as a cup of good eggnog” (The Wall Street Journal).

Together, crossword editor and amateur sleuth Belle Graham and her private detective husband, Rosco Polycrates, are “a great investigative team in the tradition of Nick and Nora” (Bookbrowse). In this holiday-themed collection—featuring two story anthologies and two novels by national bestselling author Nero Blanc—Belle and Rosco follow the clues and fill in the blanks to find the answers to some very puzzling mysteries.

A Crossworder’s Holiday: In these five short mysteries, Belle and Rosco solve puzzles in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Nantucket, and a haunted house in the Cotswolds. Perhaps the most challenging is the case of mobster Freddy Five Fingers, who was sending tip-offs to the cops via crosswords printed in the local tabloid—before he croaked.

A Crossworder’s Gift: Five more Yuletide mysteries take Belle and Rosco from sunny St. Lucia where they decipher clues to find a buried treasure to a blizzard that strands a sewing circle. And in Las Vegas, a high roller has strewn clues throughout his suite to form a crossword puzzle that leads to loot.

Wrapped Up in Crosswords: With Christmas approaching, Belle does her part creating a Noel crossword contest while Rosco dons a red suit and snowy-white beard to collect toys for the town’s annual children’s drive. But his good will starts to dim when he and two Newcastle Police Department colleagues are mistaken for escaped convicts masquerading as small-town Santas.

A Crossworder’s Delight: Just in time for the holidays at Newcastle’s historic Paul Revere Inn, Belle discovers an abandoned treasure: a book of dessert recipes written in the form of crosswords handed down from mother to daughter. But as nice as that is, someone else has been naughty: A valuable Longfellow poem has been stolen from its place of honor on the wall of the inn’s front parlor. As he starts to investigate, Rosco finds himself with a new sleuthing partner, twelve-year-old E. T. Whitman—a bit of a wordsmith himself.

[sufue]

Elaine Viets seems to be working through putting the early titles in her Dead End Job series on Kindle Countdown. The fourth, Just Murdered, is now on US Kindle Countdown at $0.99 for a few more hours before going up to $1.99. At Kindle UK it's at £0.99 for about a day-and-a-half more.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079TFZ88P
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079TFZ88P

Spoiler:

From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets—the thrilling mystery series about one woman trying to make a living... while other people are making a killing.

After all she’s endured with her own marriage, divorce, and subsequent flight from alimony, Helen Hawthorne getting a job at Millicent’s Bridal Salon is ironic in the extreme. But the pay is in cash and that’s what matters for Helen to stay incognito.

But there’s no amount of cash worth having to deal with the abominable Kiki—a wealthy witch who’s lording it over her daughter’s wedding plans with the aim of making the day all about Kiki, not the bride. She also thinks her money makes her invulnerable…but she’s proven wrong when she’s found smothered to death with her daughter’s wedding dress. And worse, the cops seem to think Helen is responsible.

Now, Helen has to keep her identity secret and prove her innocence before the bride and groom read their wedding vows—and the police read Helen her rights…

[sufue]

Now $1.99 at Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071VNBTVQ

Originally Posted by sufue

Dark Water is the most recent (2107) in the Makana series by Parker Bilal. It has dropped to £1.99 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Water-Makan...dp/B01N2JPVXF/

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[Tarana]

A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Cadfael by Ellis Peters. Book 21 of the series. 3 short stories. $1.99

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...api_tkin_p2_i4
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-rare-benedictine
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-r...=9781497671652

[GlennD]

I hope this is the right thread for this, but it's by the author of the Ed Noon books.....

The Craghold Legacy, by Michael Avallone, is free at Amazon US.

[Gardenman]

Originally Posted by Tarana

A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Cadfael by Ellis Peters. Book 21 of the series. 3 short stories

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...api_tkin_p2_i4
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-rare-benedictine
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-r...=9781497671652

Thanks Picked it up.

[Gardenman]

Originally Posted by GlennD

I hope this is the right thread for this, but it's by the author of the Ed Noon books.....

The Craghold Legacy, by Michael Avallone, is free at Amazon US.

Picked it up

[sufue]

The Night Fire is the most recent (2019) in Michael Connelly's Ballard/Bosch series. It is £0.99 at Kindle UK today as part of the Daily Deal. Always nice when a most-recent-in-series goes on sale!

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Fire-...dp/B07ND23R7H/

Spoiler:

SOME CRIMES LIGHT A FIRE THAT NEVER GOES OUT...

'One of the most eagerly awaited books of the year.'
The i newspaper, Best Crime Books for 2019

'There's something for everyone in this jam-packed plot'
New York Times

* * * * *

A JUDGE MURDERED IN A CITY PARK
Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer, defends the man accused.

A HOMELESS PERSON BURNED ALIVE
Detective Renée Ballard catches the case on the LAPD's notorious graveyard shift.

AN UNSOLVED HOMICIDE FROM A LIFETIME AGO
Harry Bosch is left a missing case file by his mentor who passed away. He was the man who taught Bosch that everybody counts, or nobody counts. Why did he keep the case all these years? To find the truth - or bury it?

IN L.A. CRIME NEVER SLEEPS
But in Ballard, Bosch and Haller: the fire always burns. Will it light the way - or leave their lives in ashes?

[GA Russell]

The Early Classics of Agatha Christie (box of 27) - 49 cents
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077K45DSD/

[sufue]

Oddly enough, four of the five titles in Anna Loan-Wilsey's Hattie Darvish series are on sale at Kobo US for $2.99 (coupon/VIPable), but only two of them are on sale at Kindle US, at least as of now. Usually it's the other way around.

Anyway...

A Lack of Temperance, #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007XIBYX4/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-lack-of-temperance-2

A Sense of Entitlement, #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I2W157A
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-s...-entitlement-6

A Deceptive Homecoming, #4
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-d...e-homecoming-1

A March to Remember, #5
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-march-to-remember-1

[sufue]

Grave Designs, apa The Canaan Legacy, is the first in the Rachel Gold series by Michael A. Kahn. It is the BN Readout free book of the weekend, matched at Kindle and Kobo US. Better grab it fast - now the weekend is almost over.

Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gra...=9781464204395
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Grave-Designs...dp/B07VMH56LQ/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/grave-designs-3

Spoiler:

"With an ear for intelligent, breezy dialogue and clever plotting, Kahn spins an engrossing yarn." —Publishers Weekly

When Graham Anderson Marshall III of the prestigious corporate law firm Abbott & Windsor dies, even stranger than his bizarre death is the codicil to his will, which provides a large trust fund for the maintenance of a grave at a pet cemetery. The issue? No one in his family has ever owned a pet—much less one named Canaan. And since Abbott & Windsor is named as the sole beneficiary if the trust is deemed invalid, there is a conflict of interest.

They turn to Rachel Gold, the savvy young attorney who left the firm to open her own law office. But before she has a chance to find out what is inside Canaan's coffin at Wagging Tail Estates, the grave is robbed. Teaming up with her best buddy, the brilliant Benny Goldberg, Rachel sets out in search of the stolen contents, following an ominous trail of clues which leads into the heart of a secret legacy of three centuries of blackmail, sexual depravity, and murder. While tracking whatever had been in Canaan's grave, it's soon apparent to Rachel that someone has plans for hers...