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Death and the Cornish Fiddler is the 11th in the John Rawlings series by Deryn Lake. It has dropped to $0.99 as a US Kindle Countdown deal for about 5 1/2 more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Cornish-Fiddl...dp/B017J3UETM/

Spoiler:

Spring 1767.

A welcome sense of recovery sweeps over the recently widowed John Rawlings and his young daughter, Rose.

Deciding on one last adventure before they return back to their home in London, the Rawlings, accompanied by John’s old flame, the delectable Elizabeth di Lorenzi, travel to Cornwall to see the famous Helstone Floral Dance.

But when they stop at an inn on the way to the festival, a child disappears in strange circumstances.

No sooner has John started investigating the case than a beautiful courtesan is found murdered at the inn.

Rawlings finds himself once again immersed in mystery and intrigue.

A suspicious blind musician is never far away from the festivities, but soon enough everyone becomes a suspect and each person has a motive.

It’s becoming more and more urgent for John to find the culprit – his daughter’s life could depend on it…

Steeped in rich historical detail and full of colourful characters, witchcraft, intrigue and suspense, this latest mystery featuring the dashing John Rawlings makes for compulsive reading.

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Three 2017/most-recent-in-series titles are on sale today as part of the US Kindle daily deal. Only one is on sale right now at Kobo US, but I'm including Kobo links for price check convenience.

Song of the Lion is the third and most recent in Anne Hillerman's continuation of her father's Leaphorn/Chee/Manuelito series. It is $2.99 at Kindle US.
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Song-Lion-Lea...dp/B01IMYCWSS/
Kobo US (FOR PRICE CHECK): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/song-of-the-lion

Spoiler:

New York Times Bestseller

A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the bestselling author of Spider Woman’s Daughter and Rock with Wings.

When a car bomb kills a young man in the Shiprock High School parking lot, Officer Bernadette Manuelito discovers that the intended victim was a mediator for a multi-million-dollar development planned at the Grand Canyon.

But what seems like an act of ecoterrorism turns out to be something far more nefarious and complex. Piecing together the clues, Bernadette and her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, uncover a scheme to disrupt the negotiations and inflame tensions between the Hopi and Dine tribes.

Retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn has seen just about everything in his long career. As the tribal police’s investigation unfolds, he begins to suspect that the bombing may be linked to a cold case he handled years ago. As he, Bernadette, and Chee carefully pull away the layers behind the crime, they make a disturbing discovery: a meticulous and very patient killer with a long-simmering plan of revenge.

Writing with a clarity and grace that is all her own, Anne Hillerman depicts the beauty and mystery of Navajo Country and the rituals, myths, and customs of its people in a mystery that builds on and complements the beloved, bestselling mysteries of her acclaimed father, Tony Hillerman.

Fallout is the latest in the V.I. Warshawski series by Sara Paretsky. It is $3.99 at Kindle US.
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-V-I-W...dp/B01J16P3D2/
Kobo US (FOR PRICE CHECK): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/fallout-50

Spoiler:

LEE CHILD says she's "a genius."

P.D. JAMES called her "the most remarkable" of today's suspense writers.

STIEG LARSSON loved her work so much, he named her in his novels.

And now SARA PARETSKY returns with the most extraordinary novel of her legendary career: FALLOUT.

Before there was Lisbeth Salander, before there was Stephanie Plum, there was V.I. WARSHAWSKI. To her parents, she's Victoria Iphigenia. To her friends, she's Vic. But to clients seeking her talents as a detective, she's V.I. And her new case will lead her from her native Chicago... and into Kansas, on the trail of a vanished film student and a faded Hollywood star.

Accompanied by her dog, V.I. tracks her quarry through a university town, across fields where missile silos once flourished — and into a past riven by long-simmering racial tensions, a past that holds the key to the crimes of the present. But as the mysteries stack up, so does the body count. And in this, her toughest case, not even V.I. is safe.

Exciting and provocative, fiercely intelligent and witty, FALLOUT is reading at its most enjoyable and powerful.

Rather Be the Devil is the most recent in the John Rebus series by Ian Rankin. It is $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Rather-Be-Dev...dp/B01F1UD4F6/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/rather-be-the-devil-2

Spoiler:

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

Rebus investigates a cold case that just turned red hot.

As he settles into an uneasy retirement, Rebus has given up his favorite vices. There's just one habit he can't shake: he can't let go of an unsolved case. It's the only pastime he has left and up until now, it's the only one that wasn't threatening to kill him. But when Rebus starts reexamining the facts behind the long-ago murder of a glamorous woman at a luxurious hotel - on the same night a famous rock star and his entourage where also staying there - the past comes roaring back to life with a vengeance.

And as soon as Rebus starts asking questions about the long forgotten crime, a fresh body materializes. His inquiries reunite him with his old pals-Siobhan Clarke and Malcolm Fox-as they attempt to uncover the financial chicanery behind the savage beating of an upstart gangster, a crime that suggests the notorious old school crime boss Big Ger Cafferty has taken to retirement as poorly as Rebus himself.

As he connects the mysteries of the past to the those of the present, Rebus learns - the hard way - that he's not the only one with an insatiable curiosity about what happened in that hotel room forty years ago, and that someone will stop at nothing to ensure that the crime remains ancient history.

A twisted tale of power, corruption, and bitter rivalries in the dark heart of Edinburgh, Rather Be the Devil showcases Rankin and Rebus at their unstoppable best.

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Free again today, not sure for how long, last time was really short, so grab if you want it...

Originally Posted by sufue

Cooking Spirits is listed in the Amazon blurb as the first in the Angie & Friends series by Joanne Pence, but SYKM lists it as the 15th (and most recent) in the Angie Amalfi series. Whichever you prefer, it's free right now at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Spiri.../dp/B00CH9S3Y2

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The Alpine Quilt is the Qth in the Emma Lord series by Mary Daheim. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Alpine-Quilt-...dp/B000FCK35U/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-alpine-quilt

Spoiler:

Bestselling author Mary Daheim knows how to spin a mystery with a tight plot and captivatingly eccentric characters. And her vivid Pacific Northwest setting–a character in itself–has garnered her a plethora of devoted fans. Now her resourceful and resolute journalist Emma Lord has another mystery to solve–and an even tougher deadline to meet.

Members of the Burl Creek Thimble Club, a quilting circle in small-town Alpine, Washington, are planning a fete to welcome back Genevieve Bayard, who left the group, and Alpine, decades ago. But Gen’s homecoming is cut decidedly short when she dies at a dinner party. Emma Lord, owner and publisher of the local newspaper, The Alpine Advocate, immediately arrives on the scene to report the incident and sleuth her way to the truth.

Though it appears that Gen wasn’t adored by everyone in the Alpine community, her untimely death still comes as a shock. To help solve the mystery, Emma turns to Vida Runkel, the Advocate’s trusty House & Home editor. Such a notorious story would normally have Vida chomping at the bit, but to Emma’ s surprise Vida is hesitant, even downright unwilling to get involved.

The demise of Genevieve Bayard, however, isn’t the only crime in Alpine. There has been a rash of burglaries, including at Emma’s own cozy log cabin. Are the break-ins and the murder connected? As Emma digs, she uncovers a shocking scandal that may point the finger of guilt at one of her nearest and dearest . . . while single-handedly changing the history of Alpine itself.

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Miss Julia Renews Her Vows is the 11th in the Miss Julia series by Ann B. Ross. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Miss-Julia-Re...dp/B0030CVQBM/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mis...r-vows-a-novel

Spoiler:

"Start with the first book and read straight on through...[or] grab the latest and devour it as a stand-alone." -Charleston City Paper

Every one loves the irrepressible Miss Julia. Her latest triumph is getting Hazel Marie and J. D. Pickens to the altar before it becomes too obvious that they're expecting twins! But why has Sam agreed that he and Julia will attend the odious Dr. Fowler's marital enrichment sessions? Could Sam feel their flames need fanning? Meanwhile, this lady of a certain age must spring Etta Mae from jail when she's wrongly accused of attacking Francie Pitts. With a fragrant felon to be caught- plus a wedding, babies, and a heaping dose of mischief-it's fortunate for all that Miss Julia's on the case.

Look out for Ann Ross's newest, Miss Julia Weathers The Storm, coming April 2017 from Viking.

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The Bone Bed is the 20th in the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Bone-Bed-Scar...dp/B0083P1QUM/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-bone-bed-1

Spoiler:

A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why.

But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect that the paleontologist’s disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, and trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age.

When she turns to those around her, Scarpetta finds that the danger and suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator, Pete Marino, and FBI forensic psychologist and husband, Benton Wesley, have secrets of their own. Feeling alone and betrayed, Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning and cruel.

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Ultraviolet is the third in the Jane Kelly series by Nancy Bush. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Ultraviolet-J...dp/B001FA0OVO/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ultraviolet-8

Spoiler:

For process server-turned-private investigator, Jane Kelly, weddings are murder. Usually that's a metaphor, but for newly minted P.I. Jane Kelly, it's fast becoming an all-too-accurate nightmare. Roland Hatchmere, plastic surgery magnate, has been found murdered just before his daughter's society wedding. The weapon is a wedding gift: a heavy, silver serving tray. The prime suspect is Roland's ex-wife #2: Violet "Ultraviolet" Purcell.

Everywhere Jane and her lovable, misfit pug, Binky, look, there's a suspect odder than the last, including two grown, very troubled kids, an ex-wife strung out on Botox and a current wife who's a cross between Donna Reed and a sex kitten--all of them eager to blame Roland's death on Violet.

The deeper Jane digs, the less she wants to know. Every truth leads her deeper into danger, and soon, Jane wonders if her first official case might also be her last. . .and if the client she's been asked to clear just might be the coldest black widow of all. . .

"Jane's cool, reader-friendly attitude makes this funny new series a winner." --Publishers Weekly

"Bush has another hit on her hands." --Romantic Times

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The Hard Way is the 10th in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Way-Jack...dp/B000GCFG7E/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-hard-way-4

Spoiler:

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Lee Child’s Bad Luck and Trouble.

In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, ex–military cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he’s thrust into an explosive situation that’s about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth—and save two innocent lives—is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way….

Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any amount of money and any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And then he’ll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance—because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world.

On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employer’s past…and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He’s beginning to realize that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: he’s already in way too deep to stop now.

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Lord of the Wings is the 19th, and for the moment, next to last, in the Meg Langslow series by Donna Andrews. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Wings-La...dp/B00R18G9NQ/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lord-of-the-wings

Spoiler:

A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Good, The Bad, and The Emus.

The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed series that mystery readers have come to love. The eighteenth book in her New York Times best-selling series continues to surprise and delight in this next knee-slapping adventure featuring Meg Langslow and all the eccentric characters that make up her world.

It's another holiday and Mayor Randall Shiffley has turned Caerphilly, Virginia into Spooky City, USA. The residents are covering every window with cobwebs and roaming the streets in costume to entertain the tourists, and Meg's grandfather is opening a new "Creatures of the Night" exhibit in the zoo. When a real body at the zoo and a suspicious fire at the Haunted House threaten to mar the town's creepy fun, it's up to Meg Langslow to save Halloween.

Like Meg Langslow, the blacksmith heroine of her series, Donna Andrews was born and raised in Yorktown, Virginia. She introduced Meg to readers in her Malice Domestic Contest-winning first mystery, Murder with Peacocks, and readers are still laughing. This novel swept up the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, and a Romantic Times award for best first novel, and a Lefty for funniest mystery.

With Lord of the Wings, readers can look forward to another zany Meg Langslow mystery--this one filled with Halloween spirit and suspense.

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A couple of titles in the excellent (IMO) Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters have dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and (one of them) Kobo US. There is an omnibus available of the first four titles, so check carefully before you buy.

The Mummy Case, Amelia Peabody, #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Mummy-Case-Am...dp/B000GCFD9A/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-mummy-case

Spoiler:

Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" -- and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest -- until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own shop. A second sighting of a sinister stranger from the crime scene, a mysterious scrap of papyrus, and a missing mummy case have all whetted Amelia's curiosity. But when the Emersons start digging for answers in an ancient tomb, events take a darker and deadlier turn -- and there may be no surviving the very modern terrors their efforts reveal.

Lion in the Valley, Amelia Peabody, #4
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Lion-Valley-A...dp/B000FC12KU/
Kobo US (FOR PRICE CHECK): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lion-in-the-valley

Spoiler:

The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplace of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses—and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death—have alerted Amelia to the likly presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal, notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivates the evil genius this time around. For now the most valuable and elusive prized of all is nearly in his grasp: the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice . . . Amelia Peabody!

[Little.Egret]

Free (not US)


Anne Belinda: A Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

The Red Lacquer Case: A Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

Will o' the Wisp: A Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

The Annam Jewel: A Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

Dead or Alive: A Frank Garrett Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

Rolling Stone: A Frank Garrett Mystery by Patricia Wentworth


https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...r=dean+street*

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...r=dean+street*

https://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-...r=dean+street*

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The Golden Egg is the 22nd in the Commissario Brunetti series by Donna Leon. It is a US Kindle Daily Deal today at $1.99.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Egg-Co...dp/B00B3M46W2/

Spoiler:

In The Golden Egg, as the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, Vice Questore Patta asks Brunetti to look into a minor shop-keeping violation committed by the mayor’s future daughter-in-law. Brunetti has no interest in helping his boss amass political favors, but he has little choice but to comply. Then Brunetti’s wife, Paola, comes to him with a request of her own. The mentally handicapped man who worked at their dry cleaner has just died of a sleeping pill overdose, and Paola loathes the idea that he lived and died without anyone noticing him, or helping him.

Brunetti begins to investigate the death and is surprised when he finds nothing on the man: no birth certificate, no passport, no driver’s license, no credit cards. As far as the Italian government is concerned, he never existed. Stranger still, the dead man’s mother refuses to speak to the police, and assures Brunetti that her son’s identification papers were stolen in a burglary. As secrets unravel, Brunetti suspects that the Lembos, an aristocratic family, might be somehow connected to the death. But why would anyone want this sweet, simple-minded man dead?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Free (not US)


Anne Belinda: A Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

The Red Lacquer Case: A Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

Will o' the Wisp: A Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

The Annam Jewel: A Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

Dead or Alive: A Frank Garrett Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

Rolling Stone: A Frank Garrett Mystery by Patricia Wentworth


https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search...r=dean+street*

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=sear...r=dean+street*

https://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-...r=dean+street*

Thank you for posting these. Most were repeats from last September, but "Dead or Alive" and "Rolling Stone" are new (to me, at least!).

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A Pattern of Lies is the 7th (and next to last, until a new title comes out in September) in the Bess Crawford series by Charles Todd. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Info and Kindle US link in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3331292

Kobo US link: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-pattern-of-lies

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Love Lies Bleeding is the 5th in the Gervase Fen series by Edmund Crispin. It is a US Kindle Countdown deal at $0.99 for about 3 3/4 more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Lies-Ble...dp/B00G9AFE8S/

Spoiler:

As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirky best.


Castrevenford school is preparing for Speech Day and English professor and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen is called upon to present the prizes. However, the night before the big day, strange events take place that leave two members of staff dead. The Headmaster turns to Professor Fen to investigate the murders.

While disentangling the facts of the case, Mr Fen is forced to deal with student love affairs, a kidnapping and a lost Shakespearean manuscript. By turns hilarious and chilling, Love Lies Bleeding is a classic of the detective genre.

Erudite, eccentric and entirely delightful - Before Morse, Oxford's murders were solved by Gervase Fen, the most unpredictable detective in classic crime fiction.