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[GA Russell]

Give 'Em the Axe (Bertha Cool and Donald Lam) - $1.99

https://www.radioarchives.com/Detect...45_p/re420.htm

[pdurrant]

Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, the second of Harry Kemelman's Rabbi Small mystery books, is currently £1.89 at Amazon UK

[sufue]

The eighth and ninth books in Sarah Hawkswood's Bradecote/Catchpoll series, are on sale for £1.29 and £1.49 respectively at Kindle UK right now.

Blood Runs Thicker, #8
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GP3C513
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GP3C513

Wolf at the Door, #9
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B093NXNTRY
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B093NXNTRY

I had a review copy of Blood Runs Thicker a while back, and liked it a lot. You can see my review on my blog - the URL is in my signature.

[sufue]

If you didn’t buy The Consequences of Fear when it was on sale for £1.99 at Kindle UK last year, now it’s on sale for £1.29 . The links are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

The Consequences of Fear is the 16th and most recent (until the new one comes out early next year) in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. It has dropped to £1.99 at Kindle UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GP47GPC
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GP47GPC

[sufue]

All three books in Jim Eldridge's wartime (WWII) hotel mystery series are on sale at Kindle UK right now. I haven't read any books in this series, but did have a review copy of one of the books in his Museum Detectives series a while back and liked it.

Murder at the Ritz, £1.49
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08GPL83KF
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08GPL83KF

Murder at the Savoy, £1.09
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B093PBTLHS
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B093PBTLHS

Murder at Claridge's, £2.89 (this has been as low as £0.99 in the not-too-distant past, so you may want to cross your fingers and be patient...)
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09NX39WSV
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09NX39WSV

[ZodWallop]

Six Years by Harlan Coben is $2.99 at Amazon US.

Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd.
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But six years haven’t come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd’s obituary, he can’t keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd’s wife he’s hoping for...but she is not Natalie.
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As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can’t be found, or don’t remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. And soon, Jake’s search for the woman who broke his heart puts his very life at risk as he uncovers the secrets and lies that love can hide....

[sufue]

Yesterday's News is the first in the Clare Carlson series by R. G. Belsky. I've had review copies of a couple of the books in this series, and liked them both. So I'm happy that this first one has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US right now.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BJC5NV3
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07BJC5NV3

Spoiler:

"Tell me what happened to my daughter?" For fifteen years this anguished plea has haunted reporter Clare Carlson

When eleven-year-old Lucy Devlin disappeared on her way to school more than a decade ago, it became one of the most famous missing child cases in history.

The story turned reporter Clare Carlson into a media superstar overnight. Clare broke exclusive after exclusive. She had unprecedented access to the Devlin family as she wrote about the heartbreaking search for their young daughter. She later won a Pulitzer Prize for her extraordinary coverage of the case.

Now Clare once again plunges back into this sensational story. With new evidence, new victims, and new suspects—too many suspects. Everyone from members of a motorcycle gang to a prominent politician running for a US Senate seat seem to have secrets they're hiding about what really might have happened to Lucy Devlin.

But Clare has her own secrets. And in order to untangle the truth about Lucy Devlin, she must finally confront her own torturous past.

And if you want to read my reviews of the other books, my blog's URL is in my signature...

[sufue]

Murder in Waiting, apa Sleeping in Blood, is the fifth in Robert Richardson's Augustus Maltravers series. It's $0.99/£0.99 as a Kindle Countdown Deal in the US/UK respectively, good for 5-ish more days.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0187EK76W
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0187EK76W
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0187EK76W
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0187EK76W

Spoiler:

‘Tense, well-written and wickedly accurate on modern ad-world and Sixties foibles’ - The Times

Swinging London, 1968.

Record producer Barry Kershaw is at the top of his game.

Rich, successful and deeply, deeply unpleasant, he is fawned over – but despised.

And then, one night, he falls from a Maida Vale balcony to his death.

Jenni Hilton – beautiful, intelligent and a successful actress, vanishes from the London scene soon afterwards.

Did she know something about Barry Kershaw's death?

Around twenty years later, writer and freelance journalist Augustus Maltravers starts to wrestle with these questions.

Was Kershaw's death an accident? Did he jump? Or was he pushed?

As Maltravers begins to delve into the past, another character who saw Kershaw on the night of his death, dies suddenly.

Is this an unfortunate coincidence or is there a more sinister force at work?

As he uncovers more of the story, Maltravers finds himself face to face with some of the brightest stars of the 1960s, their histories and their shared secrets.

Although time has passed, some legacies of those years remain.

Particularly for one person. The only person who ever loved Barry Kershaw. Who is still out there, waiting, and ready to wreak vengeance…

'Murder in Waiting' is the fifth book in Robert Richardson's Augustus Maltravers Mystery series. It was previously published as 'Sleeping in Blood'

[ZodWallop]

I've been looking at the classic Mr. Moto booksby John P. Marquand. Right now, four of the six books are on sale for $1.99 a pop. The third book was on sale just the other day, but isn't right now.

Here are the four:
1 - Your Turn, Mr. Moto

The thrilling 1st installment in Pulitzer Prize–winning author John P. Marquand’s classic espionage series featuring Imperial Japan’s most skillful spy.

2 - Thank You, Mr. Moto

Stolen art, murder, and international intrigue—the 2nd installment in John P. Marquand’s popular espionage series is an evocative portrait of 1930s Peking.

4 - Mr. Moto Is So Sorry

The 4th entry in Pulitzer Prize–winning author John P. Marquand’s popular series of espionage adventures features an Australian mercenary, a Mongolian prince, and a Japanese spymaster.

5 - Last Laugh, Mr. Moto

Japanese spymaster Mr. Moto travels to the Caribbean in search of a weapon with the power to determine the course of World War II.

[sufue]

Livid is the 26th and newest in Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series. It's £0.99 at Kindle UK right now.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09RTZHM5Z
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09RTZHM5Z

Spoiler:

Murder and mayhem. Scarpetta is back, and she's racing against the clock . . .

Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge's sister has been found dead. At first glance, it appears to be a home invasion, but then why was nothing stolen, and why is the garden strewn with dead plants and insects?

Although there is no apparent cause of death, Scarpetta recognizes tell-tale signs of the unthinkable, and she knows the worst is yet to come. The forensic pathologist finds herself pitted against a powerful force that returns her to the past, and her time to catch the killer is running out . . .

[sufue]

Per its blurb, The Conjure-Man Dies is a piece of history: the description indicates that it is the first "mystery...ever to feature a Black detective and all Black characters". That tends to put it under a bright spotlight, and might make it hard for the book to live up to its billing. I had a review copy of the recently issued e-book version a while back though, and found it very enjoyable. And I wished that the author, Rudolph Fisher, who was one of the Harlem Renaissance writers, hadn't died young, before he was able to publish more mysteries.

And now The Conjure-Man Dies is on sale for $1.99 in the US, and it's discountable at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097GGZ3FS
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B097GGZ3FS
Kobo US (discountable with coupon code "Partners22"): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-conjure-man-dies

Spoiler:

An unmissable entry in the esteemed Library of Congress Crime Classics, an exciting new classic mystery series created in exclusive partnership with the Library of Congress to highlight the best of American crime fiction

When the body of N'Gana Frimbo, the African conjure-man, is discovered in his consultation room, Perry Dart, one of Harlem's ten Black police detectives, is called in to investigate. Together with Dr Archer, a physician from across the street, Dart is determined to solve the baffling mystery, helped and hindered by Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins, local boys keen to clear themselves of suspicion of murder and undertake their own investigations.

This groundbreaking mystery is the first ever to feature a Black detective and all Black characters, written by Black author Rudolph Fisher, who was a principal writer of the Harlem Renaissance.

And as always, if you want to read my full review, the URL for my blog is in my signature...

[sufue]

This isn't, technically, a mystery, but still pretty much sounds as if it belongs in this thread anyway...

How to Solve a Cold Case: And Everything Else You Wanted To Know About Catching Killers, by Michael Arntfield, seems to be, per its blurb, pretty much what the title says it is. And it seems as if Arntfield, who is a former police detective, and currently the Director of the Murder Accountability Project in the United States, and the founder and Director of the Western University Cold Case Society in Canada, should know what he is talking about. And How to Solve is on sale right now for $2.99 in US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099WWG6GF
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B099WWG6GF
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/how...ve-a-cold-case

Spoiler:

Get inside the mind of an elite cold case investigator and learn how to solve a murder.

Despite advances in DNA evidence and forensic analysis, almost half of murder cases in Canada and the US remain unsolved. By 2016, the solved rate had dropped so significantly in the United States that it was the lowest in recorded history, with one in two killers never even identified, much less arrested and successfully prosecuted. And the statistics are just as bad in Canada.

As a sought-after global expert and former detective, Arntfield has devoted his career to helping solve cold cases and serial murders, including the creation of the Western University Cold Case Society, which pairs students with police detectives to help solve crimes.

In How to Solve a Cold Case, Arntfield outlines the history of cold case squads in Canada and the US, and lays out the steps to understanding and solving crime. Arntfield shows you what to look for, how to avoid common mistakes, recognize patterns and discover what others have missed. Weaving in case studies of cold crimes from across Canada and the US, as well as a chapter on how armchair detectives can get involved, How to Solve a Cold Case is a must-read for mystery fans and true crime buffs everywhere.

[sufue]

Nothing to Lose is the most recent (2022) in JA Jance's JP Beaumont series. It's $3.99 today in the US. I like stuff at $1.99 or maybe $2.99, but this is the most recent in a popular series, and one that doesn't go on sale often, so here you go...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0953LMD5G
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0953LMD5G
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/nothing-to-lose-66

Spoiler:

The newest thrilling Beaumont suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance, in which Beaumont is approached by a visitor from the past and finds himself drawn into a missing person’s case where danger is lurking and family secrets are exposed.

Years ago, when he was a homicide detective with the Seattle PD, J. P. Beaumont’s partner, Sue Danielson, was murdered. Volatile and angry, Danielson’s ex-husband came after her in her home and, with nowhere else to turn, Jared, Sue’s teenage son, frantically called Beau for help. As Beau rushed to the scene, he urged Jared to grab his younger brother and flee the house. In the end, Beaumont’s plea and Jared’s quick action saved the two boys from their father’s murderous rage.

Now, almost twenty years later, Jared reappears in Beau’s life seeking his help once again—his younger brother Chris is missing. Still haunted by the events of that tragic night, Beau doesn’t hesitate to take on the case. Following a lead all the way to the wilds of wintertime Alaska, he encounters a tangled web of family secrets in which a killer with nothing to lose is waiting to take another life.

[salty-horse]

The Appeal by Janice Hallett is $2 on Amazon.com
Already on my TBR. Comes highly recommended.

Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Lisa Jewell, this international bestseller and “dazzlingly clever” (The Sunday Times, London) murder mystery follows a community rallying around a sick child—but when escalating lies lead to a dead body, everyone is a suspect.

The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Hayward and his wife Helen, the play’s star. Their young granddaughter has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, and with an experimental treatment costing a tremendous sum, their castmates rally to raise the money to give her a chance at survival.

But not everybody is convinced of the experimental treatment’s efficacy—nor of the good intentions of those involved. As tension grows within the community, things come to a shocking head at the explosive dress rehearsal. The next day, a dead body is found, and soon, an arrest is made. In the run-up to the trial, two young lawyers sift through the material—emails, messages, letters—with a growing suspicion that the killer may be hiding in plain sight. The evidence is all there, between the lines, waiting to be uncovered.

A wholly modern and gripping take on the epistolary novel, The Appeal is a “daring…clever, and funny” (The Times, London) debut for fans of Richard Osman and Lucy Foley.

[sufue]

The Pudding Lane Plot is the fifteenth and most recent (Aug, 2022) in Susanna Gregory's Thomas Chaloner series. It's £0.99 today at Kindle UK. I like Gregory's other main series, her Matthew Bartholomew series, a teeny bit more, but both are pretty good, and certainly worth £0.99 IMO...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09HX72XXK
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09HX72XXK

Spoiler:

The people and businesses of London are quickly recovering from the ravages of the plague, none faster than the Court of Charles II where excess, corruption and debauchery has rebounded at a frenetic pace. In Westminster, in the haphazard corridors of White Hall Palace, plans are afoot for a grandiose ball in honour of a long-dead but English-born Pope. Meanwhile, the markets and coffee houses in the city are awash with rumours of war and portents of a coming disaster, inflamed by uncensored newssheets and the wagging tongues of dissatisfied citizens.

Mysterious killings at both ends of the capital have been caused by the use of an unusually long, slender blade, and Thomas Chaloner is ordered to investigate. The only common thread is the victims' connection to the Worshipful Company of Poulters, whose members are struggling to keep ahead of London's enormous demand for eggs. But this leads him into a tapestry of conspiracy, outlandish claims of the Second Coming, the reappearance of a number of regicides and ever more brazen killings.

As the date of the great ball looms closer, Chaloner fears that there is a dangerously credible conspiracy against the throne, and he has very little time to prevent history from repeating itself . . .