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[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free on Amazon UK - A Wanted Man by Robert Parker

This is not Robert B. Parker who wrote the Spenser books.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

This is not Robert B. Parker who wrote the Spenser books.

This is also not Robert B. Parker.

This is actually my cousin.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

This is also not Robert B. Parker.

This is actually my cousin.

He needs to wash his very very greasy hair.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

He needs to wash his very very greasy hair.

Fortunately, when not being Robert B. Parker, he's a barber!



--- Ok! Ok! Back on topic, I guess.

[sufue]

And two more early titles in this series are now $0.99 at Kindle US.

Layers of Deceit, #9, is a US Kindle Countdown Deal for about 6 more days.
link: https://www.amazon.com/Layers-Deceit...dp/B06Y5Y27SK/

Spoiler:

Contrasted against the Island of Mallorca’s stunning scenic landscapes and blazing hot temperatures, relations between the English and the Mallorquins are notoriously frosty…

But are they becoming even more sinister?

First the breaks of an English couple’s car are tampered with.

Then a young Mallorquin girl attempts suicide. Finally, an Englishman turns up dead.

A drunken fall, or is something more menacing at work here?

Inspector Enrique Alvarez of Mallorca is on the case once again.

Fuelled by his favourite coñac, he must discover the truth behind another death on his beautiful island.

Will Superior Chief Salas find credibility in Alvarez’s confusing theories?

Or will the murderer slip through the net…

Mallorquins and foreigners are suspects alike, as Alvarez’s investigation sees him swap the beauty of the island for the rain-swept lands of England.

But who amongst this mix of nationalities would be capable of murder?

And how much reliability is there in the supposed curse of the cousins…

Layers of Deceit is a mystery filled with twists and turns against the backdrop of sunny Mallorca.

Deadly Petard, #7, just seems to have dropped in price for no reason that I can figure out.
link: https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Petard...dp/B06XRWZWF4/

Spoiler:

You can’t run away from murder…

Detective Alvarez is to identify a woman called Sandra who is a friend of an Englishman, Keir West…

The office in England wants to know her full name and address as well as any other available information concerning her and the mysterious death of West’s wife, Barbara.

When the body was found, it appeared to be a suicide.

However, while studying her journal, is became apparent that the final few entries had been written in a code of some sort.
Now that they have been decoded, the focus is back on Keir West.

Under pressure from his superiors to come up with something substantial, Alvarez begins his investigation with Gertrude Dean, an old friend of Keir.

Although Mrs Dean claims to have never met Sandra, police are doubtful that she is telling the truth about Mr West…

During the initial investigation, Gertrude had found the pressure from both the police and Keir West overwhelming and had fled her home in England to live in sunny Mallorca, away from the nasty business of Barbara West’s death.

But once Alvarez has asked all his questions and left, Keir soon turns up at her doorstep, asking exactly how much help she has given the seasoned police officer.

Gertrude has been infatuated with him her whole life and Keir is adamant that he didn’t kill his ex-wife.

He compels Gertrude to stick to her story as she is his only alibi.

Secrets come out and under stress, many people begin to show their true colours.

Deadly Petard is a gripping Agatha Christie-esque murder mystery that is perfect for any fan of crime-fiction.

Originally Posted by sufue

Almost Murder is the 10th in the Inspector Alvarez series by Roderic Jeffries. It is free right now at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Almost-Murder...dp/B071L1LPBZ/

[sufue]

Big Foot Stole My Wife: And Other Stories is pretty much what it sounds like, a collection of short stories by Joan Hess, author of the Clare Malloy and Arly Hanks/Maggody series. The blurb says two of the stories are Maggody stories. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Foot-Stol...dp/B01F4MJK72/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/big...-other-stories

Spoiler:

Eleven stories of jealousy, lunacy, and murder told in the uproarious style of Joan Hess, the creator of Maggody, Arkansas.

As he waits in the checkout line at Consumers Market, Jay Jay Anderson is certain of one thing: His wife, Cookie, deserves to die. In the tabloids, he finds a story about a man whose wife was kidnapped by Big Foot, and Jay Jay can’t imagine a luckier fellow. But Cookie is a wino with nicotine-stained fingers, badly bleached hair, and a voice shrill enough to cut glass. . . . Big Foot wouldn’t be interested. If Jay Jay wants out of his rotten marriage, he’ll have to kill Cookie himself.

“Big Foot Stole My Wife!” is classic Joan Hess: diabolical, hilarious, and utterly unpredictable. This sparkling collection of stories, which includes two tales culled from the Maggody police files of beloved small-town sheriff Arly Hanks, shows a master of comic mysteries operating at her very best.

Fans of the comic small-town mysteries of Donna Andrews or Liz Lipperman will adore Joan Hess. The creator of the outrageous Ozarks hamlet of Maggody, she’s one of the funniest authors in mystery fiction, and these stories show her at her laugh-out-loud best.

[sufue]

Three titles in the Miss Silver series by Patricia Wentworth have dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

The Listening Eye, #28
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Mis...dp/B00AG8GWGC/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-listening-eye-1

Spoiler:

A deaf woman learns something she shouldn’t, and she asks Miss Silver for protection

Paulina Paine was buried under her house during the Blitz. She spent twenty-four hours trapped underneath the rubble, where the silence was absolute as the grave, and only after she escaped did she realize that the bomb that spared her life had taken her hearing. With difficulty, she learned to read lips—an invaluable skill that may soon get her killed.

She is at an art gallery when, quite by chance, she spies an interesting conversation across the room. Without meaning to, she eavesdrops, and learns of a shocking plan to commit a most fearsome robbery. She doesn’t know what to do until she learns that, after she left, the two men asked after her, and learned about her special talent. Now only the demure detective Maud Silver can halt the robbery and save Paulina’s life.

Vanishing Point, #25
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Poi...dp/B005GFBTBI/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/vanishing-point-8

Spoiler:

Miss Silver investigates a disappearance in a village near a top-secret government research facility

Jenny Maxwell is a bright young child. After an automobile accident leaves her barely able to walk, she retreats into a world of fantasy, devouring novel after novel of steamy romance. Now she has begun to write, and for a twelve-year-old she shows great promise. After she sends her work off to a publisher, the house sends a representative to meet the young woman and guide her.

But the stories she tells him are hardly fictional. Trapped in her room for hours at a time, Jenny hears all. She knows about the young woman who disappeared from town, and about the strange young man who works at the nearby military research center. What sounds like harmless gossip could actually be a grave threat to national security—one which only private investigator Miss Silver is capable of unearthing.

Poison in the Pen, #29
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Poison-Miss-S...dp/B00AG8HIZ6/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/poison-in-the-pen-1

Spoiler:

A series of cruel letters upends life in a small village, and Miss Silver searches for the anonymous scribe

It is through her friend Frank Abbott, of Scotland Yard, that Miss Silver first learns of the anonymous letters. A widowed cousin of his, living in a small country village, is being tortured by an unknown author who insinuates that the young woman’s husband may not have died of natural causes. It is a case of the kind of cruelty that is all too common in the countryside, and the governess-turned-detective listens with only polite interest.

Then the first death comes. Another target of the letter-writing campaign, tortured by the threats to reveal her darkest secrets, drowns herself in the manor-house pond. The Yard sends Abbott to unmask the sinister letter-writer, and he brings Miss Silver along as an undercover agent, masquerading as a tourist as she attempts to stop the next death before it happens.

[sufue]

The Long Skeleton is the 23rd (SYKM) or 22nd (blurb) in the Pamela and Jerry North (and cats!) series by Frances and Richard Lockridge. This is one of my top ten favorite series, and I was happy when they finally made it into ebooks a while ago. Skeleton has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (VIP/couponable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Long-Skeleton...dp/B01BM1TJCA/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-long-skeleton

Spoiler:

When a television hostess is killed in their hotel, Mr. and Mrs. North investigate the murder of America’s girl next door

From coast to coast, everyone in America knows the smiling face of Amanda Towne. The most celebrated interviewer on television, she’s a beacon of honesty and warmth . . . when the cameras are rolling. Amanda will do whatever it takes to stay at the top of her profession, and she doesn’t mind stepping on the little people—until the day someone stops her in her tracks.

Amanda doesn’t know it, but her decorating advice is the reason Pamela North has decided to repaint her apartment. But when Mr. North comes home and finds the fumes unbearable, the couple checks into the Breckenridge Hotel, whose famous suites are large enough for Pam; Jerry; their cat, Martini . . . and Amanda Towne, whom Jerry finds lying dead on the bed. The story of who put her there is simply unbelievable, even by the standards of primetime television.

The Long Skeleton is the 22nd book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

[sufue]

The first two (only two?) titles in the Jerusalem Spy series by Howard Kaplan are $0.99 at Kindle US, and the second one only is also on sale at Kobo US (VIP/couponable). These look a little more thriller-ish than mystery-ish, but WTH, "thriller" is in the title of this thread...

The Damascus Cover, #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Damascus-Cove...dp/B00MJ47WII/
Kobo US (for price check): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-damascus-cover

Spoiler:

LA TIMES BESTSELLER.

TRANSLATED INTO 7 LANGUAGES.

"KAPLAN IS UP THERE WITH THE BEST" - CLIVE CUSSLER

In a last ditch effort to revive his career, washed out agent Ari
Ben-Sion accepts a mission he never would have 30 years ago, to
smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto. Or so
he thinks.

In Damascus, a beautiful American photographer, Kim, seems to be
falling in love with Ari, but she is asking too many questions. His
communication equipment disappears. His contact never shows up. The
operation is only hours away and everything seems awry.
Desperate to succeed, Ari might risk everything. Even his life.

Soon to be a major motion picture.

Bullets of Palestine, #2
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Bullets-Pales...dp/B00OYA0R3C/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bullets-of-palestine

Spoiler:

Two agents. Two opposing sides.

Israeli Agent Shai is dispatched to eliminate a terrorist threat. To succeed in his mission Shai must win the trust of Palestinian Agent Ramzy who will help him gain access to the infamous and dangerous Abu Nidal.

Shai is under orders to kill Ramzy when the mission ends. Instead, they forge a friendship that transcends the hatreds of their heritage. Loyalties are tested. Will they capture Abu Nidal or betray each other? In a conflict where both sides dehumanize each other, two extremely human men, are caught in the cross-hairs of the larger war.

[Demingy]

The Heretic's Apprentice, from the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters is 0.99 on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LUZNZ42?tag=eriq-pwe-20)

[peachiekene]

Originally Posted by Demingy

The Heretic's Apprentice, from the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters is 0.99 on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LUZNZ42?tag=eriq-pwe-20)

And kobo!

[GA Russell]

The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin (Charlie Muffin #3) - 99 cents
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HA9I8S

[ReadingManiac]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Try this thread.

It hasn't seen much action, but if you post to it, it'll be kept in the public eye.

Thanks. I looked for it but couldn't find it at the time. I'll find something for it now.

[ReadingManiac]

Discounted Mysteries of interest:

https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Justice.../dp/B014AB4BYU
$0.99 Circus Mystery

https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Die-B.../dp/B0716ZT5FZ
$1.19 dog story

https://www.amazon.com/Thieves-Faith.../dp/B000W93D58
$1.16 Russian secrets

[sufue]

The Ambassador's Wife is the first in the Inspector Samuel Tay series by Jake Needham. It is free right now at Kindle US. It has been free before, but a couple of years ago, so I thought I'd post again. I've read and enjoyed a couple of Needham's Jack Shepherd titles, but not any of the ones in this series, so this has reminded me that I've got this one to try .

link: https://www.amazon.com/AMBASSADORS-W...dp/B006E8ZYPI/

Spoiler:

“THE AMBASSADOR’S WIFE is another terrific book from a terrific writer. In the genre of crime fiction set in Asia, Jake Needham is in a class of his own.” —The Bangkok Post

The first body is in Singapore, on a bed in an empty suite in the Marriott Hotel. The second is in Bangkok, in a seedy apartment close to the American embassy. Both women. Both Americans. Both beaten viciously, shot in the head, stripped naked, and lewdly displayed.

The FBI says it’s terrorism, but the whispers on the street tell a different story. They say a serial killer is stalking American women across Asia.

Inspector Samuel Tay of Singapore CID is something of a reluctant policeman. He’s a little overweight, a little lonely, a little cranky, and he smokes way too much. Thinking back, he can’t even remember why he became a detective in the first place. He thinks a lot about quitting, but he hasn’t. Because the thing is, he’s very, very good at what he does.

When the bodies of American women start turning up, CID gives the case to Tay. It’s high profile, and he’s the best they have. Then why is it, Tay soon begins to wonder, that nobody seems to want him to find the women’s killer? Not the FBI, not the American ambassador, not even his bosses at CID.

When international politics takes over a murder case, the truth is always the next victim.