FREE/BARGAIN - Mystery, Suspense, Thriller - 2016

[Dr. Drib]

I just checked again, using the link from above:

"This title is not currently available for purchase"

Yet, it's showing a price of $10.99

[Kieran Seymour]

Hmmm...

I'm starting to think this is one of those intercontinental muddles where IP addresses, Amazon accounts and publishing rights all get horribly tangled and end up confusing everyone.

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I just checked again, using the link from above:

"This title is not currently available for purchase"

Yet, it's showing a price of $10.99

I get that very often for Raymond Chandler books.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

Hmmm...

I'm starting to think this is one of those intercontinental muddles where IP addresses, Amazon accounts and publishing rights all get horribly tangled and end up confusing everyone.

Could be, although my credit card info and residence adderes is all USA (although I'm currently in Peru).

[Dr. Drib]

Ok, I went ahead and bought it with my kobo UK account.

[sufue]

Brighton Belle is the first in the Mirabelle Bevan series by Sara Sheridan. I've read a couple of the titles in this series and quite enjoyed them. Belle has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US.

I think this is the first title in this series to come out in ebook in the US (???), but they have been available elsewhere for a while. If you travel, please be aware that this title has been on sale elsewhere in the past, and also there is an omnibus of the first four titles that you might have purchased, so use care when/if you buy!

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010ZZXZNI

Spoiler:

“Great fun. The world needs Mirabelle’s feistiness, intelligence, and charm.”—James Runcie, author of the Grantchester mysteries

In post-World War II England, former Secret Service operative Mirabelle Bevan becomes embroiled in a new kind of intrigue…

1951: In the popular seaside town of Brighton, it’s time for Mirabelle Bevan to move beyond her tumultuous wartime years and start anew. Accepting a job at a debt collection agency seems a step toward a more tranquil life.

But as she follows up on a routine loan to Romana Laszlo, a pregnant Hungarian refugee who’s recently come off the train from London, Mirabelle’s instincts for spotting deception are stirred when the woman is reported dead, along with her unborn child.

After encountering a social-climbing doctor with a sudden influx of wealth and Romana’s sister, who seems far from bereaved and doesn’t sound Hungarian, Mirabelle decides to dig deeper into the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death. Aided by her feisty sidekick—a fellow office worker named Vesta Churchill (“no relation to Winston,” as she explains)—Mirabelle unravels a web of evil that stretches from the Brighton beachfront to the darkest corners of Europe. Putting her own life at risk, she must navigate a lethal labyrinth of lies and danger to expose the truth.

[sufue]

A Lady in the Smoke is a Victorian era mystery by Karen Odden. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US. I'm a huge fan of historical mysteries, and although I haven't seen this author before, this title has about 4 1/2 stars with a reasonable number of reviews, and it's only $0.99, so I'm going to give it a try.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QP3ROVY

Spoiler:

Featuring all the suspense and historical atmosphere of Anne Perry’s Victorian mysteries, Karen Odden’s enthralling debut plunges a headstrong young Englishwoman into a conspiracy that reaches the highest corridors of power.

Following a humiliating fourth Season in London, Lady Elizabeth Fraser is on her way back to her ancestral country estate when her train careens off the rails and bursts into flames. Though she is injured, she manages to drag herself and her unconscious mother out of the wreckage, and amid the chaos that ensues, a brilliant young railway surgeon saves her mother’s life. Elizabeth feels an immediate connection with Paul Wilcox—though society would never deem a medical man eligible for the daughter of an earl.

After Paul reveals that the train wreck was no accident, and the inspector who tried to prevent it dies under mysterious circumstances, Elizabeth undertakes a dangerous investigation of her own that leads back to her family’s buried secrets. Not only are her dowry and her reputation at stake; Paul’s very life hangs in the balance when he is arrested for manslaughter. Now Elizabeth must risk everything for the man who has found a place in her heart. As the trial draws near, and Parliament prepares for a vote that will change the course of the nation, she uncovers a conspiracy that has been years in the making. But time is running out to see justice done.

[sufue]

A few cozies have dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US. For once these are not all first-in-series, but several are repeat price drops. I'm in a hurry and don't have time to do blurbs, but here are links and titles:

Boiled Over is the second in the Maine Clambake series by Barbara Ross: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G9ABZL8

French Pastry Murder is the 21st in the Lucy Stone series by Leslie Meier: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ONTR6VU

Antiques Con is the eighth in the Trash 'n' Treasures series by Barbara Allan: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VEG4U5K

English Tea Murder is the 17th in the Lucy Stone series by Leslie Meier: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006C3WW2I

[bshar489]

Amazon US has a 3 volume John Jordan set by Michael Lister. It's books 7-9 for 99 cents. I've not read any yet but I'm collecting them and moving them up on my TBR list


https://smile.amazon.com/WRITTEN-BLO...Michael+Lister

[badgoodDeb]

A new volume in the enjoyable Maggie Sullivan mystery series (set 1944) is available for a short while for $0.99

Maximum Moxie: a Maggie Sullivan Mystery at amazon US.

[sufue]

The Fourth Figure is the fourth title to be translated into English from the long Flemish (presumably Flemish, given that it is set in Brugge/Bruges, although the Amazon blurb says it has been reprinted in Dutch 17 times - I guess the two are officially not very different) Pieter Van In series by Pieter Aspe. It only came out in the US a couple of weeks ago, so I'm really happy to see it at $1.99. Also couponable or VIP-able at Kobo US.

Kindle US link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B73OUH2
Kobo US link: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...-fourth-figure

Spoiler:

Nominated for the Hercule Poirot Award: Commissioner Pieter Van In must find the link between members of a satanic conspiracy and a young woman’s death

A young woman is found dead in the canal outside her Bruges apartment building. But what seems like a clear-cut suicide evolves into something much more complex when Commissioner Pieter Van In uncovers the girl’s involvement in a satanic sect. Who is the mysterious Venex, and why does he inspire such devotion from his disciples?

Complicating the investigation further, Van In’s boss allows beautiful journalist Saartje Maes to profile the case, sparking tension with the commissioner’s expectant wife, District Attorney Hannelore Martens. As a horrific tragedy shocks the city, Van In seems to be surrounded by secrets. And though exposing them will lead him to the truth, it will also pit him against the very police force to which he’s devoted his life.

A Belgian national bestseller, The Fourth Figure has been reprinted in Dutch seventeen times. It is the 4th book in the Pieter Van In Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by sufue

The Fourth Figure is the fourth title to be translated into English from the long Flemish (presumably Flemish, given that it is set in Brugge/Bruges, although the Amazon blurb says it has been reprinted in Dutch 17 times - I guess the two are officially not very different)

Pieter Aspe is Belgian, so strictly speaking it's a Flemish series. But Belgian and Dutch authors are often published by Dutch and Belgian publishers respectively, so it's pretty much a single language where that is concerned. And standard Dutch and Flemish are pretty much mutually intelligible; it's more a difference of idioms than anything else.

Although Dutch TV series are subtitled in Belgium, and Belgian Flemish series are subtitled on Dutch TV. No idea why...

[sufue]

Cool, thanks for the info! I figured it must be something like that...

Originally Posted by mbovenka

Pieter Aspe is Belgian, so strictly speaking it's a Flemish series. But Belgian and Dutch authors are often published by Dutch and Belgian publishers respectively, so it's pretty much a single language where that is concerned. And standard Dutch and Flemish are pretty much mutually intelligible; it's more a difference of idioms than anything else.

Although Dutch TV series are subtitled in Belgium, and Belgian Flemish series are subtitled on Dutch TV. No idea why...

[sufue]

Rogue Island is the first in the Liam Mulligan series by Bruce DeSilva. Per SYKM it won and was a finalist for a bunch of awards when it came out. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003P8QDD2

Spoiler:

2011 Edgar Award Winner for Best First Novel

Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and prostitutes, the cops and street thugs. He knows the mobsters and politicians—who are pretty much one and the same.

Someone is systematically burning down the neighborhood Mulligan grew up in, people he knows and loves are perishing in the flames, and the public is on the verge of panic. With the whole city of Providence on his back, Mulligan must weed through a wildly colorful array of characters to find the truth.

[sufue]

Death on the Sapphire is the first title in the Lady Frances Ffolkes historical series by RJ Koreto. It has recently dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US, possibly because, according to SYKM, the next one in the series is coming out in October. It is also on sale and couponable/VIP-able at Kobo US.

Kindle US link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FMQ80BC
Kobo US link: https://store.kobobooks.com/search?Q...n+the+Sapphire

Spoiler:

An extraordinary woman living in extraordinary times, Lady Frances Ffolkes is an Edwardian-era suffragette who has an uncanny ability to attract danger and romance.

When Major Colcombe, a family friend and war veteran, dies under mysterious circumstances, the good Lady Frances discovers that he was working on a manuscript about South Africa’s bloody Boer War, which reportedly revealed a scandalous mistake that cost many innocent lives. Now, it’s up to Frances and her loyal lady's maid, June Mallow, to track down the missing manuscript and bring the killer to justice. Despite clashes with Scotland Yard and the British Secret Service, Frances never backs down and finds herself in several very unfortunate positions--and one very fortunate love triangle.

Death on the Sapphire, R. J. Koreto's witty and winsome series debut, is sure to delight fans of historical mysteries for years to come.