FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

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The Night She Died is the first in the Inspector Thanet series by Dorothy Simpson. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Died-In...dp/B071RRGQ7Z/

Spoiler:

British police detective Luke Thanet tracks a housewife’s killer in the debut novel of an award-winning mystery series “in the P. D. James manner” (Kirkus Reviews).

Luke Thanet is a British police inspector with a soft heart, bad back, and bloodhound’s nose for murder. When a young woman is found stabbed through the heart with a kitchen knife, Thanet and his partner, the brusque young Mike Lineham, rush to the scene. Julie Holmes lies dead in her front hall, wrapped in her overcoat, her handbag missing. The perpetrator could have been a burglar, a jealous husband, or a spurned lover. But Detective Inspector Thanet never leaps to conclusions, and always takes his time; it seems the key to finding this killer lurks twenty years in the past.

When Julie was a child, she witnessed a murder—a traumatic event so scarring she repressed it entirely. Thanet believes that before she died, Julie’s memory came back—and so did the killer . . .

The first in the series featuring Inspector Thanet, a “most likable policeman,” The Night She Died is a compelling procedural from an acclaimed CWA Silver Dagger winner (Yorkshire Post).

The Night She Died is the 1st book in the Inspector Thanet Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Murder Grins and Bears It is the second in the Gertie Johnson/Yooper series by Deb Baker. It is free right now at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Grins-...dp/B003K16W3A/

Spoiler:

Note: NO animals are harmed in this romp through the backwoods!

On opening day of bear hunting season in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a game warden is murdered right under Little Donny’s tree stand. Little Donny disappears into the backwoods, forcing sixty-six-year-old Gertie to use her “unique” investigative techniques to find her favorite grandson. Gertie’s search is hampered by her pin-curled bodyguard Kitty, her man-hungry friend Cora Mae, and Grandma Johnson—who should be mushing peas between her new false teeth in the Escanaba nursing home instead of setting up camp at Gertie’s place. To top it off, Gertie’s son Blaze, the local sheriff, seems more concerned with arresting his mom for cruising down Highway M35 without a driver’s license than finding Little Donny or catching the killer.

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Kobo US is having a "Mammoth Mystery Sale" through September 18. Titles are up to 75% off. (Love that "up to"...) Almost complete series by some authors, a few titles for others. Seems to have a lot of Canadian authors.

Categories include: thrillers, historical mysteries, suspense, cozy mysteries, police procedurals, romantic mysteries, detective mysteries, crime, paranormal mysteries, women sleuths, hard-boiled, kids & teen mysteries

Authors that I spotted include (not comprehensive):

• John Le Carre
• Anne Emery
• Nancy Allen
• Phil Rickman
• John McFetridge
• Graham Masterton
• Rory Clements
• Louise Penny
• Donna Andrews
• Nadia Gordon
• Alice Duncan
• Peter James
• Stephen Booth
• Elly Griffiths
• Susan McBride
• Sylvia Nobel
• Kate White
• Frances Fyfield
• William Deverell
• Alison Bruce
• Lesley Thomson
• Alexander Campion
• Ian Hamilton

link to the sale page: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/mammothmysterysale

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Did someone say they were missing one of the Molly Thynne series?

The last two (of just six . . .) are free right now:

The Case of Sir Adam Braid:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Case-Sir-Ad...s=molly+thynne
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Sir-Adam...s=molly+thynne

and Death in the Dentist's Chair:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Denti...s=molly+thynne
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Dentist...s=molly+thynne

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$1.99 at Kindle US again, and now also at Kobo US (coupon/VIPable)...

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Man Who Could Not Shudder (Dr. Gideon Fell #12) - John Dickson Carr - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ISH7ARI

Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-not-shudder-2

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Cover Her Face is the first in the Adam Dalgliesh series by P.D. James. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US as part of today's daily deal.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Cover-Her-Fac...dp/B007OV600W/

Spoiler:

The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the bestselling author hailed by People magazine as “the greatest living mystery writer.”

Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder. Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a strangler’s fingers forever marring her lily-white throat. Someone has decided that the wages of sin should be death...and it is up to Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find who that someone is.

Cover Her Face is P.D. James’ delightful debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.

[GA Russell]

Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher #13) - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NLL8LA

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Price drops to $1.99 at Kindle US, not at Kobo US, as of now, at least...

Voyage into Violence, 22nd (SYKM) or 21st (blurb) in the Mr. and Mrs. North series by Richard and Frances Lockridge; repeat - info in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3561600

Fire, Burn!, non-series, John Dickson Carr writing as Carter Dickson: https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Burn-Joh...dp/B00ISH7780/

Old Scores, 3rd in the Chris Norgren series by Aaron Elkins: https://www.amazon.com/Scores-Chris-...dp/B00J90F0PM/

and two Margery Allingham/Albert Campion titles:

Sweet Danger: https://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Danger-...dp/B074FJ9RSN/

Hide My Eyes: https://www.amazon.com/Hide-Eyes-Alb...dp/B074FN1FV1/

As always with Open Road/Mysterious/Ipso, watch for multiple editions of the same titles, so your previous purchase may not show up on the webpage...

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A Darkness Descending is the 4th in the Sandro Cellini series by Christobel Kent. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Desc...dp/B00EJ3FBV2/

Spoiler:

When the driven, charismatic leader of a Florentine political movement collapses at a rally, his young party immediately comes under threat. And when it emerges that his wife, Flavia, has disappeared, leaving behind not only a devastated husband but their newborn son, the political becomes dangerously personal—and Detective Inspector Sandro Cellini is summoned to investigate.

The trail leads to a somber seaside town, where Flavia chose to end her life. But Cellini isn’t satisfied—why would someone so young and with so much to live for walk away from all she loves? As he digs into Flavia’s secret world, however, Sandro uncovers the hidden life of a woman consumed with private passions and a dark, deadly obsession—a stark reminder that life in modern Italy has a perilous edge, fueled as much by rage as desire.

[GA Russell]

Attentioin ZodWallop and Dr. Drib!

The Complete Crime Stories - James M. Cain - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VSLI6LA

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Attentioin ZodWallop and Dr. Drib!

The Complete Crime Stories - James M. Cain - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VSLI6LA

Thank you!

I believe I missed this one. (Wasn't this one on sale a bit earlier?)

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The first three titles in the Molly Murphy series by Rhys Bowen, all of which were finalists and/or award winners for various awards, are $2.99 today as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal. Titles are:

• Murphy's Law
• Death of Riley
• For the Love of Mike

link for all three: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...price-asc-rank

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A bunch of Patricia Wentworth lesser known series (i.e. not Miss Silver) or non-series titles have dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. If you live or travel to the UK, many of these have been free there in the past, so check carefully before you buy. Titles include:

• The Dower House Mystery (not $1.99 at Kobo)
• Fear by Night
• Who Pays the Piper (Ernest Lamb series)
• The Blind Side (Ernest Lamb series)
• Danger Calling (Benbow Smith series)
• Fool Errant (Benbow Smith series)
• Rolling Stone (Frank Garrett series)
• Dead or Alive (Frank Garrett series)

links for all:
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

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Deadly Cases is an omnibus of the first three titles in the Inspector Montague Pluke series by Nicholas Rhea. It is a US Kindle Countdown deal at $1.99 for about 2 1/2 more days. All three individual titles have been on sale/free before, so check carefully before you buy.

Titles include:

• Omens of Death
• Superstitious Death
• A Well-Pressed Shroud

link: https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Cases-...dp/B06XWZWQSP/

Spoiler:

Nicholas Rhea’s bestselling Montague Pluke mysteries are collected together for the first time in this chilling collection.


OMENS OF DEATH

Detective Inspector Montague Pluke is determined to solve a noteworthy murder before he retires, but it seems unlikely in the sleepy town of Crickledale.

So when the naked body of a young woman is discovered at the local Druids’ Circle – rumoured to be the site of orgies, witchcraft and other bizarre goings-on - it seems fate is on his side.

Or is it…


SUPERSTITIOUS DEATH

When a neighbour’s bay tree withers and dies for no apparent reason, the superstitious DI Montage Pluke suspects something terrible has happened.

His fears are confirmed when the body of a beautiful young woman is found in a shallow grave.

With nothing to identify her, Pluke tries to solve the case with little more to go on than the mirror she was buried with and the pathologist’s declaration that she was a virgin.

Can he and his trusted sidekick Wayne Wain solve the mystery?


A WELL-PRESSED SHROUD

Detective Inspector Montague Pluke is enjoying a much-needed holiday to Trippingdale Castle, when he stumbles upon the body of the estate’s heir floating face down in the shallow waters.

To make matters even stranger, the heir and several other people in the village had recently received a single pressed snowdrop – a well-known sign of death.

Much to Pluke’s displeasure, his quiet countryside holiday is turning into a hair-raising murder investigation. Can he find the murderer before another body turns up?

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Russian Hill by Ty Hutchinson is going free. I really enjoyed this one!
https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Hill-.../dp/B00G6HEJDU