FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[maddz]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

She Walks at Night by Seishi Yokomizo, the most recently translated Kindaichi novel, is £0.99 on the UK Kindle store at the moment.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/She-Walks-N.../dp/B0FRNNKCN3

Looking through the links on the book page:

It looks like Village of Eight Graves and The Little Sparrow Murders from the same series are also £0.99. I've read the first, and enjoyed it, but not got to the second, yet. Note that the translation order is not necessarily the same as the original publication order, which is also not necessarily the same as the internal chronology.

And The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji is also £0.99 at the moment, along with one of the later books in the series.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Decagon-Hou.../dp/B08LPFN162

Decagon House is a strong recommendation from me. I wasn't such a fan of Mill House (not discounted), which I worked out early, and I haven't read the later books, yet.

The entire series has been priced at 99p at one time or another. She Walks at Night was the last to get (for me).

[salty-horse]

We Are All Guilty Here (A North Falls Thriller #1) by Karin Slaughter is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
This series was recommended by author Hank Phillippi in this video.

The first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series.

Welcome to North Falls. A small town where everyone knows everyone. But nobody knows the truth.

Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites.

For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help—and now she must bring her home.

But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did.

Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding?

[sufue]

More than a year later, Now or Never: Thirty-one on the Run is on sale again, again £0.99 in the UK and $2.99 in the US. Also on sale this time at Kobo US. Links are still good. Probably in honor of the thirty-second book, Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo, coming out in a few weeks. I'm not a huge Evanovich fan, but lots and lots of folks are...

Originally Posted by sufue

Now or Never: Thirty-one on the Run is the thirty-first and most recent (2024) Stephanie Plum book by Janet Evanovich. It's on sale in the UK, and also on not-quite-as-good a sale in the US.

Kindle US, $2.99: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CV1QC4QW
Kobo US (price-check, not on sale right now): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/now-or-never-68
Kindle UK, £0.99: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CW189ZNW
Kobo UK, £0.99: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/now-or-never-70

[GA Russell]

The Saint Sees It Through
novel by Leslie Charteris

also

Hang My Killer High
novelet by Robert Leslie Bellem

plus four short stories

Detective Mystery Novel Magazine
Spring, 1948

$1.99

https://www.radioarchives.com/Detect...48_p/re418.htm

[nana77]

Amazon has this "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Original 1886 Unabridged Edition" @ $0,46, while the other version is @ $0,88.
https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Jekyl.../dp/B0DHV84VL2
https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Case-...dp/B0C1KSQXF2/
Althought it's on public domain too; also Wikipedia mentions 141 pages on its original (I don't know how the digitalized version handled it - text size, etc...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strang...ll_and_Mr_Hyde

[Tarana]

Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown (book 6 of Robert Langdon series) is on sale for $2.99 at Amazon and Kobo US.

[Hollow Man]

Originally Posted by nana77

Amazon has this "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Original 1886 Unabridged Edition" @ $0,46, while the other version is @ $0,88.
https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Jekyl.../dp/B0DHV84VL2
https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Case-...dp/B0C1KSQXF2/
Althought it's on public domain too; also Wikipedia mentions 141 pages on its original (I don't know how the digitalized version handled it - text size, etc...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strang...ll_and_Mr_Hyde

These are both sketch publishers, so unless one finds a good deal from a known publisher which adds value through scholarly essays and annotations, I recommend other sources for works like this, such as standardebooks.org. It's probably posted here on mobileread's servers too.

Granted I don't know anything about abridged vs. unabridged for this title (although I can't imagine standardebooks would have an abridged version), so research!

[salty-horse]

The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale is $3 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Western, Adapted to screen by netflix.

In a rip-roaring adventure set at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom, a young boy draws in two unlikely bounty hunters in his search for his sister.

“Reads like a dark version of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer **and feels like a Coen brothers movie.”****―**Houston Chronicle

**“The bard of East Texas is back.”****―**Booklist (starred review)

Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-of-the-century East Texas--orphaning him and his younger sister, Lula.

Then catastrophe strikes on the way to their uncle's farm, when a traveling group of bank-robbing bandits murder Jack's grandfather and kidnap his sister. With no elders left for miles, Jack must grow up fast and enlist a band of heroes the likes of which has never been seen if his sister stands any chance at survival. But the best he can come up with is a charismatic, bounty-hunting dwarf named Shorty, a grave-digging son of an ex-slave named Eustace, and a street-smart woman-for-hire named Jimmie Sue who's come into some very intimate knowledge about the bandits (and a few members of Jack's extended family to boot).

In the throes of being civilized, East Texas is still a wild, feral place. Oil wells spurt liquid money from the ground. But as Jack's about to find out, blood and redemption rule supreme.

[salty-horse]

This is the regular price, but it's cheap, and seems interesting, so I'm posting it.
The Englishman's Cameo (Muzaffar Jang #1) by Madhulika Liddle is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

A poisoned paan, a non-government issue arrow and the cameo of a mysterious Englishman... Muzaffar Jang is that rare creature in Mughal Emperor Shahjahan’s Dilli – an aristocrat with friends in low places. One of whom, Faisal, stands accused of murder. When the body of Mirza Murad Begh is found stabbed in the chest, lying in a water channel in the Qila, poor Faisal is the only one around. But what of the fact that, minutes before his demise, the victim had stepped out of the haveli of Shahjahanabad’s most ravishing courtesan? Could not the sultry Mehtab Banu and her pale, delicate sister, Gulnar have something to do with the murder? Determined to save his friend, Muzaffar decides to investigate, with only a cup now and then of that new-fangled brew – ‘Allah, so bitter’ – called coffee to help him. A trail of clues leads him from Mehtab’s haveli out into the streets of seventeenth-century Dilli – rife with rumours of Dara Shukoh’s strange leanings and Prince Aurangzeb’s rebelliousness – into a conspiracy far more sinister than he had imagined...

[sufue]

And now A Trade of Blood is £0.99 in the UK. Not sure how much longer this will last, so grab it fast if you want it. This is one that I bought before even doing this post, just to make sure I didn't miss it .

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FTF7GN39
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/a-trade-of-blood-2

Oh, and the work thing that was keeping me crazy crazy busy is over, as of this past Friday. Whew! So although it's going to take a little bit of time to dig out from all the stuff I've neglected, I hope to gradually get back to reading and reviewing and posting.

Originally Posted by sufue

A Drop of Corruption is the second in Robert Jackson Bennett's excellent IMO Ana and Din (Shadow of the Leviathan) series. It's £0.99 in the UK right now.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D2L4S2SY
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/a-drop-of-corruption-2


The first book in the series, The Tainted Cup, was a finalist for the 2025 Edgar Award for Best Mystery, and won the 2025 Hugo for Best Novel. And I thought the second book, although slightly different in that it seemed to harken back to multiple classic mystery authors, and not just Rex Stout, lived up to the first. Sadly, I've been too busy in the past few months to do much reading/reviewing, so I didn't get an ARC of the third, A Trade of Blood, which came out in early August. So I've really been hoping to see that one do the UK £0.99 thing, but haven't spotted it at that price yet.

[DrNefario]

Three Assassins by Kotaro Isaka is 99p in the UK. I assume as a Monthly Deal, since I bought it yesterday and it's still 99p today.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Assas.../dp/B09DKNC4QF

This is the book that came before the entertainingly silly Bullet Train (despite what Amazon's series numbering might claim).

Three killers. One plan. No one gets out clean.

When Suzuki’s wife is murdered, he infiltrates the criminal underworld to find those responsible - only to discover a trio of professional assassins, each with a signature method and a deadly philosophy.

THE WHALE convinces his victims to take their own lives using just his words.

THE CICADA is a talkative and deadly knife expert.

THE PUSHER dispatches his targets in deadly traffic 'accidents'.

Fast, funny and full of twists, Three Assassins spins revenge into a gripping and unputdownable ride.