FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by cc_in_oh

Very helpful, thanks - I assume I first create the anonymous authorization in the plugin config?

I was confused by the Adobe involvement, thought Kobo ebooks were already epubs.

Kobo books are ePubs. But some are DRM-free (publisher's option), and otherwise, depending on how you access them, they have Kobo's own DRM system, or Adobe's DRM system.

[Aleron Ives]

Originally Posted by cc_in_oh

I assume I first create the anonymous authorization in the plugin config?

Yes, or you can import an existing ADE authorisation if you've used ADE before.

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Restless in the Grave is the nineteenth in Dana Stabenow's excellent (except for a few books, with which I get mad enough to scream) Kate Shugak series. It's on sale right now in the US for $0.99. Which is pretty unusual - normally when these go on sale it's for $1.99 or more, and many of them don't go on sale very much either. So I'd say, grab this one now if you want it. (This isn't one of the ones that made me mad, although the next one is...)

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005GXOQGA
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/res...in-the-grave-6

Oh, and it's discountable at Kobo US...

Spoiler:

New York Times bestseller Dana Stabenow returns with her most outstanding novel yet, teaming up two of her most beloved characters, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell, in the same story for the first time.

Alaska aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant died in the fiery crash of his Piper Super Cub. Someone sabotaged his engine, and virtually everyone in southwestern Alaska has a motive, including his betrayed wife, his bullied children, and Liam's wife, bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard. With few places to turn, Liam asks his former mentor Niniltna post commander Sergeant Jim Chopin, for help, and Jim quickly brings Kate onto the case.

Working undercover as—of all things—a waitress at Bill's Bar and Grill, Kate learns over beer and burgers that Grant's business had expanded meteorically over the last two years. After buying the closed Air Force base south of town from the federal government at a bargain-basement price, he became a fixed-base operator running his fishing, hunting, and flight-seeing business, servicing planes flying through the area, and most interestingly and lucratively, getting into the air freight business. But what kind of freight was he moving, and where?

The answers involve Kate in her most challenging case to date, one that starts with murder and quickly sprawls into a much larger conspiracy ranging from the darkest family secrets to treason and beyond. Restless in the Grave is a treat for fans and another outstanding addition to Dana Stabenow's acclaimed and award-winning series.

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Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is the first five of six titles in the Jack Warr series by Lynda La Plante, for £0.99 each. Five is few enough that I can list them, so here you go:

• Buried
• Judas Horse
• Vanished
• Pure Evil
• Crucified

And here's the link to the Big Deal webpage: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/?_encodin...ode=4725112031

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Blackwater Sound is the seventh in the Thorn series by James W Hall. Per SYKM, it won the 2003 Shamus Award for Best Novel. And it's free right now at Kindle US and UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCC3J5CQ
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DCC3J5CQ

Books in this series go free or on sale from time-to-time. Not often, and you need patience, but I now have about half of them. And if you find you don't want to wait, they're not badly priced at $3.99 in the US, and around £3.00 in the UK.

Spoiler:

The Braswell family had everything people would kill for: money, looks, power. But their eldest son, the family's shining light, died in a bizarre fishing accident. And when he disappeared-hauled into the depths by the giant marlin he had been fighting-he took with him a secret so corrupt that it could destroy the Braswells.

Ten years later, a huge airliner crashes in the steamy shallows off the Florida coast, killing all aboard. Helping pull bodies from the water, Thorn finds himself drawn into a bizarre conspiracy: someone has developed a high tech weapon capable of destroying electrical systems in a powerful flash. The terrorist potential is huge. How are the secretive Braswells and their family-owned company, MicroDyne, involved? And what does it have to do with the family's obsessive hunt for the great marlin that killed their golden boy?

With the Braswells, James W. Hall introduces one of the most evil and dysfunctional families in the history of fiction. And, along with Thorn, he brings back favorite characters from his earlier books, including Alexandra Rafferty and her father, Lawton Collins, a retired and increasingly dotty former police investigator whose methods of investigation result in his kidnapping. A story that bristles with all the heat and tension of a tropical Florida summer.

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Murder in Northumbria, apa In the Family, is the first in the Pen Darling series by Martyn Taylor, and it's the Joffe Free Friday/weekend mystery for a few more hours. (I'm swamped at my real job...)

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQC96VJT
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FQC96VJT

Spoiler:

He built an empire on fear. Now his murder threatens to tear it apart.

Barry Dance is found dead in his remote farmhouse, a gun in his right hand. But former mob leader ‘The Dancer’ didn’t shoot himself — this was an execution.

Dance was a man people loved to hate. He might have turned his back on organised crime, but as the ruthless head of a property empire he still spread fear among business associates — and fuelled resentment among his own family.

Detective Pen Darling knows the murder bears all the hallmarks of a professional hit. Now she must return to Newcastle’s murky criminal underworld to catch the killer.

As she follows the trail from glittering city offices to the bleak moors, she uncovers secrets Barry Dance thought he had buried for good. Secrets someone is still willing to kill for.

Can she expose the truth before another life is taken?