FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

Two titles in the Inspector Sloan series by Catherine Aird have dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US; one also at Kobo. This is one of my top five favorite series...

Passing Strange, #9
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Passing-Stran...dp/B00VUC3H7K/

Spoiler:

In this gripping mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, the village spinster dies behind a fortune teller’s booth, and Calleshire’s greatest detective looks into the future—and sees justice

The annual Horticultural Society Flower Show would have gone off without a hitch were it not for one very pesky murder.

When nurse Joyce Cooper goes missing from the parish’s fortune-telling booth at the flower fair, her friends at the local church are immediately concerned. It’s not like this old lady, who plays the organ during service every Sunday without fail, and who, it’s told, lives for the purpose of helping others, to disappear without notice. So when she’s found strangled to death under a tarp, the community is thrown into an uproar.

Who better to calm the crowd than Calleshire’s greatest detective? Alongside his bumbling sidekick, Constable Crosby, C. D. Sloan runs through the bizarre list of suspects—the daughter of a deceased anthropologist, a greedy developer, a jealous tomato gardener, and a set of wealthy farmers—to find out who would have benefited most from the beloved nurse’s death. What he finds will astonish the entire village.

Last Respects, #10
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Respects...dp/B00VUC3HG6/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/last-respects-1

Spoiler:

In this C. D. Sloan Mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, a body is found in the river—but the victim didn’t drown
When local fisherman Horace Boller decided to row his boat out on the tidal backwash of the river one morning, he couldn’t have meant to land a catch like this. What he ended up with was a body floating on the river’s surface. And judging by the state of the corpse, the death was not a recent one.

The strange thing is, the coroner report indicates that drowning was not the cause of death. It’s up to the intrepid C. D. Sloan—and his markedly less intrepid assistant, Constable Crosby—to investigate.

Along the way, Calleshire’s most successful pair of puzzle-solving policemen will contend with a handful of additional strange deaths, befuddling municipal building codes, an antiquarian with interesting views on local history, and a fisherman who has his own motivation for helping (or perhaps hindering) the investigation. Can C. D. Sloan get to the bottom of this waterlogged killing?

[GA Russell]

Force 10 from Navarone - Alistair MacLean - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Force-10-Nava...dp/B004JHYTHU/

[sufue]

Prince of Fire is the fifth in the Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Fire-G...dp/B001AK43W0/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/prince-of-fire-2

Spoiler:

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva presents "a first-rate thriller" (Rocky Mountain News) featuring art restorer—and reluctant spy—Gabriel Allon.

After an explosion in Rome destroys the Israeli embassy, Gabriel Allon makes a disturbing discovery—the existence of a dossier in terrorist hands that strips away his secrets, and lays bare his history. Drawn into the heart of a service he’d once forsaken, Allon finds himself stalking a master terrorist across a bloody landscape generations in the making. But soon, Allon will wonder who is stalking whom.

When the final showdown comes, it won’t be Allon alone who is threatened with destruction. For it is not his history alone that has been exposed...

[GA Russell]

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a brief review of The Big Book of the Continental Op which is coming out Tuesday.

https://smile.amazon.com/Big-Book-Co...dp/0525432957/

There is no listing yet for the Kindle edition. The paperback is discounted from $25.00 to $16.37.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a brief review of The Big Book of the Continental Op which is coming out Tuesday.

https://smile.amazon.com/Big-Book-Co...dp/0525432957/

There is no listing yet for the Kindle edition. The paperback is discounted from $25.00 to $16.37.

Thanks for that! I'll keep an eye out for it.

[sufue]

If you haven't already read the first three titles in Elly Griffith's Ruth Galloway series, they are on sale as an omnibus now at Kindle and Kobo US for $3.99. I've read and enjoyed several of the titles in this series.

Titles in the Ruth Galloway Series: The First Three Novels (The Starter Pack) are:

• The Crossing Places
• The Janus Stone
• The House at Sea’s End

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Ruth-Galloway...dp/B018DWKO02/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ruth-galloway-series

Spoiler:

Looking for a new mystery series to suck you in? Dive into the inaugural novels of the captivating Ruth Galloway mysteries with this starter pack.

Archaeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway turns amateur sleuth once Detective Chief Inspector Nelson calls her for help when a child’s bones are found on a desolate beach. Gone are the days of digging up artifacts and living alone with her cats—Ruth is pulled into the world of shadowy murders, resurfaced bones, historical mysteries, twisted secrets, and a dash of romance.

THE CROSSING PLACES
Join Dr. Ruth Galloway in her first foray into the world of forensic archaeology when a child’s bones are found on a beach. Ruth is called in to help decipher whether they are the remains of Lucy Downey, a little girl who went missing a decade ago and whose abductor continues to taunt Detective Chief Inspector Nelson with bizarre letters containing references to ritual sacrifice, Shakespeare, and the Bible. Then a second girl goes missing and Nelson receives a new letter—exactly like the ones about Lucy. Is it the same killer? Or a copycat murderer, linked in some way to the site near Ruth’s remote house?

THE JANUS STONE
It’s been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old house in Norwich uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway—minus its skull—Ruth is once again called upon to investigate. Is it a Roman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer closer at hand?

THE HOUSE AT SEA’S END
Just back from maternity leave, forensic archaeologist Ruth is finding it hard to juggle motherhood and work when she is called in to investigate human bones that have surfaced on a remote Norfolk beach. The bones—six men with their arms bound—it turns out, date back to World War II, a desperate time on this stretch of coastland.

Elly Griffiths’s work has been praised by the Associated Press as “must-reads for fans of crime fiction.” The e-book includes The Crossing Places, The Janus Stone, and The House at Sea’s End.

[Loosheesh]

The Glass House, the latest in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Gamache series, is now $3.99. This one came out at the end of August. (Shockingly, I'm not buying it yet )

[Little.Egret]

Endeavour, free


Deadly Return (A Dr Josiah Bartlett Mystery Book 5) by Daniel Bjork

Historical Mystery

The decade long killing spree of evil Henry Chase is finally over, with the murderer dead and gone.
But all too soon strange things are happening once again in Concord, Massachusetts, when the bodies of two of Chase’s former victims are stolen from their graves, and in their place is left the skeleton of a stranger. Warnings begin in the town; skulls hanging from porches, shots fired and as the clues began to mount up, it seems to Josiah that maybe the impossible has happened.

Could it be that Henry Chase is not dead? And not only wants revenge, but to take the life of all who wronged him, starting with the good doctor Josiah Bartlett.


Deadly Return is the fifth novel in this crime mystery series which began with Deadly Crossroads, Deadly Rendezvous, Deadly Assumptions and most recently Deadly Comrades.


Daniel Bjork is Professor of History at St Mary’s University, Texas,


https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Return...dp/B077JZ3N3M/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Retu...dp/B077JZ3N3M/

https://www.amazon.ca/Deadly-Return-...dp/B077JZ3N3M/

[Little.Egret]

Golden Age, free until Friday, Not US

Who Pays the Piper?: An Ernest Lamb Mystery by Patricia Wentworth

Pursuit of a Parcel: An Ernest Lamb 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*

[GA Russell]

Promised Land (Spenser #4) - $2.49
https://www.amazon.com/Promised-Land...dp/B003XVYL9E/

*****

Mistletoe and Murder - free
https://www.amazon.com/Mistletoe-Mur...dp/B00GT3LT1Q/

[pdurrant]

Just a note that these nine are still just £0.99 each at Amazon UK.

Originally Posted by maddz

In terms of the internal chronology:

Grave Mistake #30
Clutch of Constables #25
Singing in the Shrouds #20
Off With His Head (Death of a Fool) #19
Artists in Crime #6
Swing, Brother, Swing #15
Died in the Wool #13
Death at the Dolphin (Killer Dolphin) #24
Last Ditch #29

So, best to start with Artists in Crime, and make sure you read Last Ditch at the end before Grave Mistake. As HarryT said, they’re all stand-alone, but as the cast develops and changes are made, it’s best to read them more or less in order. They’re also set in real time to a large extent.

[ATDrake]

X-link to the Kobo discounts thread for what's probably a publisher promo sale in Canada & the US:

Kobo is promoting a bunch of Macmillan imprint offers for $2.99 and under as a 1-day sale for today, November 28th, likely to be available at the other retailers instead of exclusive to them.

There's a whole stack of books in Janet Evanovich's popular Stephanie Plum series, plus some Dana Stabenow, assorted cozy mysteries and thrillers, and more.

[GA Russell]

Visions of Sugar Plums - Janet Evanovich - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Visions-Sugar...dp/B002HRY15O/

*****

Murder at Mistletoe Manor - 99 cents
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mistle...dp/B01M1H4W9I/

[sufue]

Actually, there are 17 Janet Evanovich titles on sale for $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US, I think just for the rest of today???

Titles include

• Visions of Sugar Plums (per @GA Russell below)
• Plum Spooky
• Plum Lovin'
• Plum Lucky
• Fearless Fourteen
• Seven Up
• Twelve Sharp
• To the Nines
• Eleven on Top
• Ten Big Ones
• Hard Eight
• Lean Mean Thirteen
• Four to Score
• Sizzling Sixteen
• Hot Six
• High Five
• More Plums in One (an omnibus of Four, Five and Six - for the same price total as each individually, so unless you really hate having to split the omnibus, I don't know why you would buy the individual titles...)

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...eyword=-kendra
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?Qu...cmaxprice=2.99

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Visions of Sugar Plums - Janet Evanovich - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Visions-Sugar...dp/B002HRY15O/

*****

Murder at Mistletoe Manor - 99 cents
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mistle...dp/B01M1H4W9I/

edit: Just noticed @ATDrake mentioned this in a generic way a couple of posts up...now folks have specific links...

[sufue]

A Thief of Time is the 8th in the Leaphorn/Chee series by Tony Hillerman. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Thief-Time-Le...dp/B000FC1458/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-thief-of-time

Spoiler:

At a moonlit Indian ruin—where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground in the name of profit—a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. At an ancient burial site, amid stolen goods and desecrated bones, two corpses are discovered, shot by bullets fitting the gun of the missing scientist.

There are modern mysteries buried in despoiled ancient places. And as blood flows all too freely, Navajo Tribal Policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth an astonishing truth and a cold-hearted killer.