FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[GA Russell]

Thrilling Detective Magazine
August, 1948

Seven stories, including

The 9th Doll

a novelet by
Robert Leslie Bellem

$1.99

https://www.radioarchives.com/Thrill...8_p/re1180.htm

[salty-horse]

Ripley Under Ground (Ripley #2) by Patricia Highsmith is £1 in the UK (Amazon only, but Kobo is price-matchable)

Tom Ripley is now the owner of a beautiful estate in France, a wealthy art collector and married to an heiress. The Buckmaster Gallery is staging an exhibition by the celebrated artist, Derwatt, but an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt - but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead.

Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret and his reputation clean, but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder.

Ripley Under Ground is an ingenious novel of masks and identity, illusion and reality, and is followed by Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water.

[sufue]

The Incense Game is the sixteenth in the Sano (and Reiko) Ichiro series by Laura Joh Rowland. I've read and liked several of the early books in this series in DTB, but the e-books are usually quite expensive, and so I've kind of lost track of the later books. But I'd expect them to be good too. The Incense Game is on sale in the UK for £2.99 right now, and discountable at Kobo UK.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007XSN9IC
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-incense-game-3

Spoiler:

In The Incense Game, Laura Joh Rowland's powerful and evocative thriller, Sano Ichiro and his wife strive to solve the case in a world that is crumbling around them.

An RT Book Review Magazine Reviewers' Choice Award Winner

In the wake of a terrifying earthquake, Sano races to solve a crime that could bring down the shogun's regime

Japan, 1703. A devastating earthquake has left the city of Edo in shambles—even the shogun's carefully regulated court is teetering on the brink of chaos. This is no time for a murder investigation. But when Sano discovers the bodies of two young sisters buried beneath the rubble, he suspects that incense poisoning, not the earthquake, killed them. Worse yet, their father, a powerful nobleman, threatens to topple the vulnerable regime unless Sano agrees to track down his daughters' killer.

With the help of his wife, Reiko, and his chief retainer, Hirata, Sano begins a secret investigation that jeopardizes his whole family. And with Hirata mysteriously neglecting his duties and an old foe plotting to overthrow Sano and the shogun himself, the shockwaves from the earthquake are only the beginning.

[sufue]

Feast for the Ravens is the thirteenth and most recent (2025) in Sarah Hawkswood's Bradecote & Catchpoll historical series. I had a review copy of an earlier title in this series, which I quite liked, and have since read some others (ditto on liking them). Feast in on sale at Kindle UK right now for £0.99. Sadly it's not on sale at Kobo UK, but I'm providing the link for price checking/matching purposes.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DYK9CGMM
Kobo UK (price check/match): https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/feast-for-the-ravens

Spoiler:

Worcestershire, September 1145. A Templar knight is found dead in the Forest of Wyre, clutching a bloodstained document naming a traitor. Undersheriff Hugh Bradecote, Serjeant Catchpoll, and Underserjeant Walkelin must uncover whether the killing was personal, political, or the work of outlaws. They are surprised to find that the locals believe the killer to be the Raven Woman, a mythical shape-shifter said to haunt the woods. Then the knight is identified as Ivo de Mitton, who fled the shire many years ago, presumed guilty of the foul murder of his kin.

As the trio dig through legend and lies, they must determine the truth and bring a cunning killer to justice.

[cc_in_oh]

Humble has 18 Maigret epubs for $18

Link

[sufue]

Sharp Force is the twenty-ninth and most recent (Oct 2025) in Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series. It's £0.99 in the UK right now.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DY4MP6CM
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/sharp-force

Spoiler:

NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THE SERIAL KILLER. NOT EVEN SCARPETTA...

During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta receives a chilling call. The Phantom Slasher has struck again.

The serial killer has terrorized Northern Virginia for months. His pattern is to stalk with a sophisticated technology that enables him to invade his victims' homes and watch their every move. They wake up to a ghost-like hologram before being murdered in their beds.

Scarpetta is summoned to Mercy Island, the site of a notorious psychiatric hospital where two people have been brutalized, one of them from Scarpetta's past. It soon becomes apparent that she could be next . . .

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by cc_in_oh

Humble has 18 Maigret epubs for $18

Link

US Only. Not available in Canada or the UK.

[salty-horse]

I thought I posted this already. Maybe I misclicked. If it was deleted by an admin, I apologize, but I see no reason why it shouldn't belong here.

Karla's Choice by Nick Harkaway is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

The instant international bestseller set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway

It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West’s spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only for a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumor that George Smiley might almost be happy.

But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Szusanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead.

But in his absence, the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley soon finds himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come and set him on a collision course with the greatest enemy he will ever make.

Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in John le Carré's George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Karla’s Choice marks a momentous return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

I thought I posted this already. Maybe I misclicked. If it was deleted by an admin, I apologize, but I see no reason why it shouldn't belong here.

Not us.

[sufue]

And a few years later, again on sale. $1.99 in the US, £0.99 at Kindle UK, and £1.99 at Kobo UK, but discountable there. The US links below are still good, and here are UK links...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003M5IUSY
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/not-quite-dead-enough

Originally Posted by sufue

Not Quite Dead Enough is another rare US price drop on a title in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin series. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003M5IUSY
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/not-quite-dead-enough

[sufue]

Well, the title appears to have reverted to After the Funeral in the US now too, and it's on sale for $1.99 as part of today's Kindle Daily Deal, and price-matched at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC2RRW
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/after-the-funeral

And FWIW, SYKM says it was published at one point (1963) with the title Murder at the Gallop as well . Just to add to the confusion...

Originally Posted by jselby

After the Funeral: Hercule Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot series Book 29) by Agatha Christie is $1.99 at amazon.com

https://smile.amazon.com/After-Funer.../dp/B000FC2RRW

Originally Posted by BetterRead

Note: After the Funeral is Christie's original UK title. In the US, it was published as Funerals are Fatal. (I still own a paperback with that title.)

Also, it is the 25th novel featuring Hercule Poirot (if we exclude short story collections).