FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[sufue]

After noticing the apparent US Kindle Severn House sale, I checked it, and found a number of Severn House titles at $2.99 or less, most of which appear to be pretty recent price drops, a few not. Titles include:

• Red Station by Adrian Magson
• Shimura Trouble by Sujata Massey
• The Evil that Men Do by Jeanne M. Dams
• Dark and Stormy Night by Jeanne M. Dams
• Shirt on his Back by Barbara Hambly
• Brute Strength by Susan Conant
• The Way between the Worlds by Alys Clare
• Husband and Wives by Susan Rogers Cooper
• Dead Man's Secret by Simon Beaufort (pen name for Susanna Gregory)
• Deadly Inheritance by Simon Beaufort
• The Ely Testament by Philip Gooden

This link includes all of these, plus a few that I already posted, a few that seem to be long-term in this price range, and a few stray Severn House titles from other genres:
https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...se&price=0-300

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK - The Dark Garden: A Bobby Owen Mystery by E.R. Punshon

Spoiler:

Late in the afternoon a man, unidentified, had been seen to throw a glove into the Midwych, Wychshire and Southern Canal…

Osman Ford said he would kill the lawyer Mr. Anderson. So when the latter is found dead, with a bullet in the back, the disagreeable Mr. Ford is top suspect. But the lawyer’s office was also a cauldron of repressed feelings, and not all the staff are sorry to see the lawyer’s demise. In particular, Inspector Bobby Owen fears the dark, brooding clerk Anne Earle. Will her quest for justice lead her to a terrible fate of her own, amid family secrets and lies? The novel combines a satisfying whodunit with elements of the fantastic and macabre, and contains some of Punshon’s best set-pieces.

The Dark Garden was first published in 1941. It is the sixteenth of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series including thirty-five novels. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Garden...362247031_f_71

[HarryT]

Thanks, Mort!

[KyBunnies]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free on Amazon UK - The Dark Garden: A Bobby Owen Mystery by E.R. Punshon

Spoiler:

Late in the afternoon a man, unidentified, had been seen to throw a glove into the Midwych, Wychshire and Southern Canal…

Osman Ford said he would kill the lawyer Mr. Anderson. So when the latter is found dead, with a bullet in the back, the disagreeable Mr. Ford is top suspect. But the lawyer’s office was also a cauldron of repressed feelings, and not all the staff are sorry to see the lawyer’s demise. In particular, Inspector Bobby Owen fears the dark, brooding clerk Anne Earle. Will her quest for justice lead her to a terrible fate of her own, amid family secrets and lies? The novel combines a satisfying whodunit with elements of the fantastic and macabre, and contains some of Punshon’s best set-pieces.

The Dark Garden was first published in 1941. It is the sixteenth of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series including thirty-five novels. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Garden-Bobby-Owen-Mystery-ebook/dp/B01IXT6L84/ref=zg_bs_362247031_f_71

Also free in the USA - https://amazon.com/Dark-Garden-Bobby...dp/B01IXT6L84/

[ATDrake]

Kobo's $2.99 Beach Reads weekend promo in their Summer Reading Event offer for this weekend has quite a few nice titles (probably part of a publisher promo and available at other stores).

In the US (also on sale in Canada and eligible for the extra 10% off VIP membership discount), the Severn House sale titles mentioned by sufue upthread, plus some Soho Press titles can mostly be seen on the dedicated Mystery page. Viewing the Canadian-equivalent Can't Put Down Mysteries & Thrillers page (most titles also available in the US adds a bunch of Kensington cozies and some Canadian small press mysteries.

Highlights of the sale at $2.99 CAD each (mostly probably Canada-exclusives):

• The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, #14 in Alexander McCall Smith's popular No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, from Knopf Canada.
• The Last Good Day (an Arthur Ellis Award finalist) and The Endless Knot, #10 & #11 in Canadian Gail Bowen's (SYKM) Joanne Kilbourn series set in Saskatchewan, from McClelland & Stewart.
• 4 titles, which look to all be in the Alan Banks series by Canadian Peter Robinson (SYKM), starring a detective chief inspector in Yorkshire, England, from Penguin Canada. There are too many for me to look up where they fit in the series, but he's got a lot of award nods for them on his SYKM page.
• How the Light Gets In, #9 in Canadian Louise Penny's (SYKM) Inspector Gamache series set in Quebec. This won the 2014 Left Coast Crime Calamari Award, which has a pretty cool name, and SYKM lists four more finalist nods for it as well. From St. Martin's Minotaur imprint, which should also be available in the US.

Soho Press has two series of international mysteries in translation with introductory $1.99 #1 books which are part of the sale, where almost the rest of the series (usually at $8 or above) has been discounted to $4.99 in the US, but $3.89 in Canada ($3.50 CAD after the VIP discount), since Soho books are no longer couponable in the US, but still discountable in Canada.

I think this is because their exchange rate pricing is a little wonky right now, and if you happen to be interested in picking up the (almost) lot of either series, I'd take advantage of this while it lasted, if I were you, unless you're feeling really optimistic about getting another 50% off unlimited use coupon before the end of the Summer Reading Event promotions or these showing up as an Amazon 1-day deal for $1.99 a pop.

• #1-3 of the Nina Borg series by Danish authors Lene Kaaberbøl (Wikipedia) & Agnete Friis' (joint SYKM, Wikipedia) starring a Red Cross nurse in Copenhagen. #1 is $1.99 and was a Barry Award finalist, #2-3 are $3.50 CAD/$4.99 USD. #4 is regular price.
• #1-14 + a short story collection of Amsterdam Cops series by the late Dutch author Janwillem van de Wetering (SYKM, Wikipedia). #1 is $1.99, all the rest, which comprise the complete series are $3.50/$4.99.

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ $3.99 CAD from Masque Poche @ Kobo Canada as part of their sporadically rotated monthly promo (may be matched elsewhere) if you happen to read French and be interested in looking up works in the original.

#1-3 of French author Olivier Gay's (ISFDB, Wikipedia FR) Fitz series, apparently starring a drug dealer turned anti-hero vs a serial killer in Paris, are just $3.99 each; #4 is a little higher. In addition to winning an award for the 1st-in-series, the author has also been nominated for fantasy and young adult literary prizes.

1. Les talons hauts rapprochent les filles du ciel won the 2012 Prix du premier roman du festival de Beaune (Wikipedia FR; apparently a longstanding mystery/thriller international film festival that also now gives out a literature prize, according to this write-up).
2. Les mannequins ne sont pas des filles modèles for some reason also has a separate $8.99 CAD edition available.
3. Mais je fais quoi du corps ?
4. Trois fourmis en file indienne , published just last year, is $5.99

[sufue]

The Day the Rabbi Resigned is the next-to-last in the Rabbi Small series by Herry Kemelman (after he ran out of days of the week, and probably wished he had chosen letters or numbers ). It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

Kindle US link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZJZIMAQ

Spoiler:

Crime-solving Rabbi Small retires from the synagogue only to find himself hard at work on a beguiling murder case

After three decades of dealing with temple politics and getting involved with more than a handful of murder investigations, Rabbi David Small is ready to retire from his synagogue in the cozy Boston suburb of Barnard’s Crossing. For years, his secret desire has been to permanently take up teaching, but when he finally leaves the synagogue to pursue that dream, life at a university proves more dangerous than he thought.

Late at night, a notoriously ambitious college professor dies in a car wreck. The academic had been drinking heavily, but evidence suggests that the crash might not have been an accident. The local police are stumped and enlist the only detective they know whose astute eye and quick mind come from a higher power: Rabbi Small.

[sufue]

Unsettled Spirits is the ninth (although as with many series, there's a little mix-up on that, depending on precisely what you count) in the Daisy Gumm Majesty series by Alice Duncan. This is one of my top ten favorite series, possibly influenced a bit by the fact that I went to school, lived and worked in Pasadena for many years. This may be a self-pub continuation of a previous traditionally published series, however, I've read and enjoyed it just as much as the earlier titles. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0186ZDO2Q

Spoiler:

People are dropping dead after communion services at Daisy's church, Detective Sam Rotondo has finally professed his love for Daisy, and Daisy sees swaying trees in her crystal ball, a prop in which she doesn't place any faith.

But when the crystal ball's image leads Daisy to her client's missing butler, and then a bunch of bootleggers, Daisy unknowingly bumps into the man responsible for the parishioners' deaths. She doesn't recognize him, but he recognizes her and that lands Daisy at the top of his to-be-murdered list.

PRAISE for THE DAISY GUMM MAJESTY MYSTERIES
"Well plotted with a band of whimsical characters and genuine humor... as comforting as a warm mug of cocoa on a blustery day." ~Diane Morasco, RT Book Reviews

"Cozy fans will find [Daisy's] simple, sweet, budding relationship with Sam refreshingly free of artifice." ~Publishers Weekly

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by sufue

The Day the Rabbi Resigned is the next-to-last in the Rabbi Small series by Herry Kemelman (after he ran out of days of the week, and probably wished he had chosen letters or numbers ). It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

Kindle US link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZJZIMAQ

And I can highly recommend this series. I have them all in paperback and ebook.

Actually... only the first seven in ebook. And this one is currently only £1.50 at Amazon UK! Bought!)

[badgoodDeb]

I bought it too. So, are there only 9 of them then? 7 days (7 books you already had), plus this is billed as "2nd to last", so one more makes 9?

[HarryT]

What does "second to last" actually mean? That there's the "first to last" after it, and then the last, or that there's only the last following it ?

To answer your question, though, there are 11 books in the series. See:

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/k/harry-kemelman/

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by sufue

The Day the Rabbi Resigned is the next-to-last in the Rabbi Small series by Herry Kemelman (after he ran out of days of the week, and probably wished he had chosen letters or numbers ). It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

Kindle US link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZJZIMAQ

£1.50 in UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ZJZIMAQ/

A UK reduction is very unusual for Open Road

[sufue]

Fingers crossed they start doing it more in the UK! It's odd they don't - they do a lot of reductions in the US, including their daily "Early Bird" sale.

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

£1.50 in UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ZJZIMAQ/

A UK reduction is very unusual for Open Road

[sufue]

Clawback is the newest (!) Ali Reynolds title by JA Jance. Unusual to see the newest in a series go on sale, but it has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US as part of today's Daily Deal (so grab it fast if you want it).

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010MH9V7I

Spoiler:

In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance’s latest thriller, Ali Reynolds faces her most controversial mystery yet, solving the murder of a man whose Ponzi scheme bankrupted hundreds of people, and left them seeking justice…or revenge.

When Ali’s parents lose their life savings to a Ponzi scheme, her father goes to confront his long-time friend and financial advisor, only to stumble into the scene of a bloody double homicide. With her father suddenly a prime suspect, Ali and her husband work to clear her father’s name, while at the same time seeking justice for her parents as well as the scheme’s other suddenly impoverished victims, one of whom is a stone cold killer.

[sufue]

The Bourne Identity is the first of the three original Robert Ludlum-written titles in the Jason Bourne series. The series was later continued by Eric von Lustbader. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008XCM18Q

Spoiler:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

His memory is a blank. His bullet-ridden body was fished from the Mediterranean Sea. His face has been altered by plastic surgery. A frame of microfilm has been surgically implanted in his hip. Even his name is a mystery. Marked for death, he is racing for survival through a bizarre world of murderous conspirators—led by Carlos, the world’s most dangerous assassin. Who is Jason Bourne? The answer may kill him.

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Supremacy.