FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

Per SYKM, Roderic Jeffries, writing as Roderic Graeme, continued with a series character created by his father (Bruce Graeme), featuring Richard Verrell, known as Blackshirt, a romantic thief and best-selling author in England.

Blackshirt Passes By is the third in that series, and it is free right now at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Blackshirt-Pa...dp/B074KHP2DW/

Spoiler:

For once Richard Verrell was minding his own business.

Taking an evening constitutional stroll.

Passing by, as it were.

But his detached state of mind changed abruptly when he saw his own car being driven dangerously along a quiet street at the back of the British Museum.

Verrell was not the man to stand still and wonder. He wanted to know what was going on — and quickly.

Before long he learned that the driver of the car had just perpetrated a daring ‘snatch’ raid on the British Museum, where he had stolen only one article: a gold and ruby horse from the Saladin collection.

But why only the one article?

A pretty problem which could scarcely fail to interest Blackshirt.

Blackshirt Passes By moves with a pace that has come to be expected by the many millions of readers who have delighted in the past exploits of this immortal character.

[maddz]

Today's Big Deal on Amazon.co.uk: 34 Ellis Peters - the complete Brother Cadfael series and what looks to be the complete Dominic Felse series (a total of 34 books at 99p each).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=s9_ac...d_i=5400977031

[pdurrant]

Yes, it looks like all of both series.

Dominic Felse 13 books for £12.87

Brother Cadfael 20 books for £19.80

And the Brother Cadfeal 'prequel' A Rare Benedictine

I already have all the Cadfael books, but I can't resist the False books. I read some of the long ago in paper, but not the later ones.

[HarryT]

That's a wonderful deal! I had all the Cadfael books, but none of the Felse ones.

[rbruce1314]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Yes, it looks like all of both series.

Dominic Felse 13 books for £12.87

Brother Cadfael 20 books for £19.80

Yes, I too have only today come across the Felse series thanks to maddz: well posted that man. Grabbed the lot!

BUT - look at the actual deal being offered by Amazon (in GBP!):
The whole Felse series for £12.87 - or just 99p each!! (you do the maths . . . . )

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by rbruce1314

BUT - look at the actual deal being offered by Amazon (in GBP!):
The whole Felse series for £12.87 - or just 99p each!! (you do the maths . . . . )

The series link is just a convenient way to buy all the books at once. The discount is that they're all £0.99 today instead of whatever they usually are.

[maddz]

Originally Posted by rbruce1314

Yes, I too have only today come across the Felse series thanks to maddz: well posted that man.

That woman, actually, but I'll happily accept the thanks

I've got all the Cadfaels via previous 99p deals. I've read a few of the Felse books - my sister had some of the Indian ones - but I'm not sure if I'll bother with them; I recall them as being OK reads, but I think the most exciting thing about them was the Indian setting. (Now if books 11-20 of the Falco series were being offered, I'd snap them up like a shot.)

Besides, I've got enough reading to be getting on with with current books that I'm loth to add another series for the moment - I'm still trying to read the Lynn Hamiltons I got in the Smashwords January sale.

[rbruce1314]

Originally Posted by maddz

That woman, actually, but I'll happily accept the thanks

Oh the perils of internet handles!!!!

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by HarryT

That's a wonderful deal! I had all the Cadfael books, but none of the Felse ones.

Must check if there are any I have missed

I particularly recommend



The Knocker on Death's Door

[rbruce1314]

Molly Thynne day again:
The Murder on the Enriquetta

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01KQ317RA
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Enriqu...the+enriquetta


He Dies and makes no Sign

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01KQ4Y3VG
https://www.amazon.com/He-Dies-Makes...+makes+no+sign

BTW - sorry if avatar change confuses - fed up with silhouette!! Now matches screen moniker (relatively )

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by rbruce1314

Molly Thynne day again:
The Murder on the Enriquetta

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01KQ317RA
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Enriqu...the+enriquetta


He Dies and makes no Sign

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01KQ4Y3VG
https://www.amazon.com/He-Dies-Makes...+makes+no+sign

BTW - sorry if avatar change confuses - fed up with silhouette!! Now matches screen moniker (relatively )

Got the other one, the one I didn't have.

--Thank you!

[sufue]

Double Exposure, by Michael Lister, is a non-series title (per SYKM) or the first in the Remington James series (per the blurb) - take your pick. (It appears there is some cross-over between a couple of Lister's series...) In either case, it has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Double-Exposu...dp/B00EOA56QK/

Spoiler:

A wildlife photographer’s camera traps capture a killer committing a murder frame by frame. Now’s he’s running for his life deep in the river swamp.

Lyrical, literary, told in poetic, photographic impressions, DOUBLE EXPOSURE is a page-turner with a soul.

Includes a special Introduction by Michael Connelly!

“DOUBLE EXPOSURE is absolutely riveting! Elegiac prose, insightful characterization and a wonderfully ingenious plot.” Michael Connelly

A Florida Book Award-winner, soon to be a major motion picture.

Get the sequels, BLOOD SHOT and SEPARATION ANXIETY, for a reduced price for a limited time!

Following his dad's death, Remington James returns to the small North Florida town where he grew up to assume his father's life -- taking care of his dying mother and running the local gun and pawn shop.

Picking up a camera again after a long hiatus, Remington returns to his first love, pursuing in earnest his lifelong dream of becoming a wildlife photographer.

One fateful fall evening, as the sun sinks and the darkness expands, Remington ventures deep into the river swamp to try out some new equipment and check his camera traps.

Encountering the kind of wildlife that made him want to be a photographer in the first place, Remington gets some of the best shots of his life, but he's about to happen upon the most dangerous animal of all -- a feral, patient, sociopath who wants Remington dead.

While checking his camera traps, scanning the eerie images of overexposed deer and bats and foxes, Remington comes across the most haunting images of his life --- the frame-by-frame capture of a shocking crime.

By exposing the criminal, Remington has exposed himself to danger, even possible extinction. Hunted like an animal, by the predator and his psychotic friends, Remington must do two things: make it through the night and make it to the river --- and the odds of doing either are slim to none.

Join the chase through the wild wonder of North Florida today!

[sufue]

The four "non-weekday" titles in the Rabbi Small series by Harry Kemelman have dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US:

• Someday the Rabbi Will Leave
• One Fine Day the Rabbi Bought a Cross
• The Day the Rabbi Resigned
• That Day the Rabbi Left Town

I picked up the last one in this series that I needed, so I'm happy .

The links below also pick up a collection of Kemelman's short stories featuring Nicky Welt, The Nine-Mile Walk, and Kemelman's discussion of Judaism, using Rabbi Small as the protagonist, Conversations with Rabbi Small, both of which are also $1.99.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...price-asc-rank
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?Qu...cmaxprice=2.00

[sufue]

Ratking is the 1988 Gold Dagger Award winner, and first in the Aurelio Zen series by Michael Dibdin. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Ratking-Micha...dp/B007YUATOQ/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ratking-1

Spoiler:

Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award, this chilling police procedural is a masterpiece of psychological suspense.

Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not Miletti's children, who seem content to let the head of the family languish in the hands of his abductors--if he's still alive. Was Miletti truly the victim of professionals? Or might his kidnapper be someone closer to home: his preening son Daniele, with his million-lire wardrobe and his profitable drug business? His daughter, Cinzia, whose vapid beauty conceals a devastating secret? The perverse Silvio, or the eldest son Pietro, the unscrupulous fixer who manipulates the plots of others for his own ends? As Zen tries to unravel this rat's nest of family intrigue and official complicity, Michael Dibdin gives us one of his most accomplished thrillers.

[sufue]

Although I'm not fond at all of Tom Clancy's politics, which bleed into some of his books a lot IMO, I do have fond memories of his really looooong title, The Bear and the Dragon, which I picked up in a London airport and read all the way back home across the Atlantic, back in DTB days, after I had totally run out of the books that I had brought with me on a long combined work/vacation trip to Europe. Bear saved me from having to (1) work , (2) reread something, (3) actually open the seatback magazine, (4) watch the airline movies, or (5) sleep (which I did do some of too ).

It is so so awesome to be able to carry as many books as I want on my phone, or on an e-ink reader for long trips!

In any case, Bear has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Bear-Dragon-J...dp/B001Q9J4PQ/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...and-the-dragon

Spoiler:

President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known in Tom Clancy's extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller.

A high-level assassination attempt in Russia has the newly elected Ryan sending his most trusted eyes and ears—including antiterrorism specialist John Clark—to Moscow, for he fears the worst is yet to come. And he’s right. The attempt has left the already unstable Russia vulnerable to ambitious forces in China eager to fulfill their destiny—and change the face of the world as we know it...