FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

And now free again, about a year after it was last free. Again my hope that this might indicate another title in the series on the way seems to be not the case. Sigh...

Originally Posted by sufue

Last Mass is the first (and only, so far) title in the Ginevra Casabuoni series by C.G. Griffin. This looks self-pubbed (Reyna's Press???) but I have personally read and liked this title. (Disclaimer: I am a huge fan of historical mysteries...)

Mass has dropped to FREE again at Kindle US. I was hopeful this might indicate another title in the series coming out, but it doesn't appear so, at least as of now.

Info and link in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3297278

[sufue]

Longshot is a non-series title by Dick Francis. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Longshot-Dick...dp/B003NX7694/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/longshot-2

Spoiler:

“Fast-paced, meticulously plotted...Nobody sets up a mystery better than Dick Francis.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Jump in the saddle with a sure thing.

Travel writer John Kendall travels to England to interview a racehorse trainer. Soon enough, however, Kendall realizes that completing the book will be tricky at best. Because the racehorse trainer he’s tasked with interviewing has something to hide—a secret that could threaten Kendall’s life.

[sufue]

J.A. Jance's Ali Reynolds Mysteries 3-Book Boxed Set, Volume 2 is pretty much what it sounds like - a collection of the 5th, 6th and 7th books in this series. Titles are:

• Trial by Fire
• Fatal Error
• Left for Dead

This collection has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jances-Reyn...dp/B007WVNR2S/

The description is pretty much non-existent, but if you wanted to, you could take a look at the descriptions for each individual book...

Spoiler:

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

[sufue]

Having read and enjoyed the first four, I've been waiting a while for Blue Blooded, which is the fifth title in Emma Jameson's Lord and Lady Hetheridge series, to go on sale. It now has gone on sale as half of a two-book omnibus, Deadly Duet, which also includes the fourth title in the series, Black & Blue. Duet has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (VIP/couponable), which is a pretty nice price, even though I already have the fourth book.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G8TDMGX
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...lish-mysteries

Spoiler:

Two of Emma Jameson's best mysteries, now in one volume! If you haven't tried these romantic, witty cozies, DEADLY DUET is the perfect place to start.

Lord Anthony Hetheridge, a legend at Scotland Yard, has just married Detective Sergeant Kate Wakefield. The newlyweds couldn't be more different. Tony Hetheridge is sixty, blue-blooded, and the perfect English gentleman sleuth. Bold, blonde Kate is thirty-three, working class, and modern London to the bone. Falling in love with Kate turned Lord Hetheridge's life upside down, and he wouldn't have it any other way.

In BLACK & BLUE, Tony, Kate, and DS Deepal "Paul" Bhar take on the death of a widely-hated art dealer. Was it counterfeits that brought him down, or drug smuggling, or his parade of scorned women?

In BLUE BLOODED, Tony, and Kate, and Paul face perhaps their greatest challenge when the fiendish Sir Duncan Godington returns, bent on revenge.

[Acataloger]

Ice Blue (first title in series) is free at AmazonUS and KoboUS!

AmazonUS:https://smile.amazon.com/Blue-Lord-L...sr=1-1-catcorr
KoboUS:https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ice-blue

[rbruce1314]

Originally Posted by sufue

Having read and enjoyed the first four, I've been waiting a while for Blue Blooded, which is the fifth title in Emma Jameson's Lord and Lady Hetheridge series, to go on sale. It now has gone on sale as half of a two-book omnibus, Deadly Duet, which also includes the fourth title in the series, Black & Blue. Duet has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (VIP/couponable), which is a pretty nice price, even though I already have the fourth book.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G8TDMGX
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...lish-mysteries

NIce spot - unusual reduction for new(ish) volumes (especially if one has missed the issue of the fourth !!!).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07G8TDMGX?tag=mr060-20

[sufue]

And I nearly missed it, because I assumed at first that the omnibus would be of the first two titles, which is much (much) more common. Then something made me look at it again, and I realized it was of the two most recent titles. Woo-hoo

Originally Posted by rbruce1314

NIce spot - unusual reduction for new(ish) volumes (especially if one has missed the issue of the fourth !!!).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07G8TDMGX?tag=mr060-20

[sufue]

Two Josephine Tey/Inspector Grant titles have dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Note that some of Tey's titles are public domain in some countries, so if you have any travel coming soon to any of those countries, you may want to consider carefully before buying these...

And here, if you live in the wrong place and aren't traveling soon, are links and info for the S&S US versions:

The Man in the Queue, apa Killer in the Crowd, #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AB194TQ
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-man-in-the-queue-3

Spoiler:

Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the identity of the killer—whom no one saw.

A long line had formed for the standing-room-only section of the Woffington Theatre. London’s favorite musical comedy of the past two years was finishing its run at the end of the week. Suddenly, the line began to move, forming a wedge before the open doors as hopeful theatergoers nudged their way forward. But one man, his head sunk down upon his chest, slowly sank to his knees and then, still more slowly, keeled over on his face. Thinking he had fainted, a spectator moved to help, but recoiled in horror from what lay before him: the man in the queue had a small silver dagger neatly plunged into his back. With the wit and guile that have made Inspector Grant a favorite of mystery fans, the inspector sets about discovering just how a murder occurred among so many witnesses, none of whom saw a thing.

To Love and Be Wise, #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AB194W8
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/to-love-and-be-wise-1

Spoiler:

A witty and sophisticated mystery featuring bestselling author Josephine Tey’s popular Inspector Alan Grant, a beloved character created by a woman considered to be one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.

Literary sherry parties were not Alan Grant's cup of tea. But when the Scotland Yard Inspector arrived to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinner, he was struck by the handsome young American photographer, Leslie Searle. Author Lavinia Fitch was sure her guest "must have been something very wicked in ancient Greece," and the art colony at Salcott St. Mary would have agreed. Yet Grant heard nothing more of Searle until the news of his disappearance. Had Searle drowned by accident or could he have been murdered by one of his young women admirers? Was it a possible case of suicide or had the photographer simply vanished for reasons of his own?

[sufue]

Dead of Winter is the first in the CSI: New York series by Stuart M. Kaminsky. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FCKCR4
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dead-of-winter-4

Spoiler:

A thrilling original novel based on the television series CSI: New York!

Detective Mac Taylor is a dedicated and driven crime-scene investigator who believes that everything is connected and everyone has a story. He and his partner, Detective Stella Bonasera, lead a team of experts through the gritty and kinetic world of New York City. These skilled investigators, who see New York in a unique light, follow the evidence as they piece together clues and eliminate doubt to ultimately crack their cases.

The body of a middle-aged man is found in the elevator of a ritzy doorman building on the Upper East Side. Mac Taylor and Aiden Burn's initial investigation yields no bullets, no DNA evidence, and no motive. Could this be the perfect crime? Meanwhile, only a few blocks away, Stella Bonasera and Danny Messer investigate the murder of a witness being held in protective custody. The law enforcement officers on duty swear that the victim spent the night in a locked hotel room—only to be found dead in the morning. From the heart of midtown to the outer boroughs, the New York CSI team must piece together the evidence and solve two puzzling crimes in the city that never sleeps.

[dom38]

#9 and #16 are free today:

https://www.amazon.com/Voodoo-Murder.../dp/B00CGPM032

https://www.amazon.com/February-Doll.../dp/B00FF8O1TS

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by sufue

Having read and enjoyed the first four, I've been waiting a while for Blue Blooded, which is the fifth title in Emma Jameson's Lord and Lady Hetheridge series, to go on sale. It now has gone on sale as half of a two-book omnibus, Deadly Duet, which also includes the fourth title in the series, Black & Blue. Duet has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (VIP/couponable), which is a pretty nice price, even though I already have the fourth book.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G8TDMGX
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...lish-mysteries

Originally Posted by Acataloger

Ice Blue (first title in series) is free at AmazonUS and KoboUS!

AmazonUS:https://smile.amazon.com/Blue-Lord-L...sr=1-1-catcorr
KoboUS:https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ice-blue

Ooo, thanks! The sample on the Duet above, book 4, reads well and is interesting. So I'll try the series. How lovely to also find book 1 available, so I can read in order! (Wonder if #2 and #3 ever go on sale.... But if I find time to start and finish #1, I'll want #2 and #3 RIGHT THEN, so I'll buy them anyway.)

[sufue]

No Comment: A (Reluctant) Interview with Geek Girl Lexi Carmichael appears to be pretty much what it says it is, a pretend "interview" with the heroine of the Geek Girl mystery/thriller/romance series by Julie Moffett. It also says it includes an "interview" with the protagonist of a new "White Knights" series by Moffett.

I'm usually a bit suspicious of these companion-type things, but Comment is free right now, so no biggie to try it and see...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/No-Comment-Re...dp/B077C8C3SZ/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/no-...exi-carmichael
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Comment-...dp/B077C8C3SZ/

Probably also Kobo UK, but I'm too lazy to log out of Kobo US and go look...

[sufue]

The others do go on sale, but only rarely and for not very long. But at least they are normally in the $5 range, not the $8 - $10 range that some smaller presses seem to carry over from their "trade paperbacks". There is also a (consistently named) omnibus of the first three titles, Deadly Trio, that is currently $9.99, but spent quite a while at $0.99 earlier this year. If the first one weren't free, $9.99 would be a good price, but as it is, Trio works out to about the same as the individual titles for #2 and #3, give or take a couple pennies.

But I know what you mean - when I do find a series I like, I want to read it now - and not wait for a sale...

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Ooo, thanks! The sample on the Duet above, book 4, reads well and is interesting. So I'll try the series. How lovely to also find book 1 available, so I can read in order! (Wonder if #2 and #3 ever go on sale.... But if I find time to start and finish #1, I'll want #2 and #3 RIGHT THEN, so I'll buy them anyway.)

[sufue]

Now $1.99 in the US as a Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Hunt-October-...dp/B001PSEPLG/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-red-october-1

Spoiler:

The #1 New York Times bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Tom Clancy—a gripping military thriller that introduced the world to his unforgettable hero, Jack Ryan—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Somewhere under the freezing Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. The chase for the highly advanced nuclear submarine is on—and there’s only one man who can find her...

Brilliant CIA analyst Jack Ryan has little interest in fieldwork, but when covert photographs of Red October land on his desk, Ryan soon finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek played by two world powers—a game that could end in all-out war.

Originally Posted by GeoffR

Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October (HarperCollins) is £1.99 / $2.99 / $2.99 at UK / AU / NZ retailers, normally £4.99 / $8.99 / $9.99.

[sufue]

Both titles in the Natalia Monte series by Jan Merete Weiss have dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

These Dark Things
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/These-Things-...dp/B004OR1KT0/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/these-dark-things-3

Spoiler:

First in the police procedural series, this “plot [is] replete with shocks . . . Her vivid portrayal of Naples, in its glory and its gloom, is unforgettable” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).

When a college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastery, Capt. Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. Could the killer be a professor the student was sleeping with? A blind monk who loved her? Or a member of the brutal criminal organization known as the Camorra? As Monte pursues her investigation, the crime families of Naples go to war over garbage-hauling contracts, and across the city heaps of trash pile up, uncollected. When one of Monte’s childhood friends is caught up in the violence, her loyalties are tested, and each move she makes threatens her own life and the lives of those she loves.

A Few Drops of Blood
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Drops-Blood-C...dp/B00G8EJZ76/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-few-drops-of-blood-3

Spoiler:

An “atmospheric mystery” featuring a female police captain in Naples, Italy (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

When the bodies of two men are found, shockingly posed, in the garden of an elderly countess, Capt. Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case. Soon she finds herself shuttling between Naples’s decadent art galleries and violent criminal underworld. If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime, Natalia must deal with not only her own complicated past and allegiances, but also those of the city as a whole.

From the author of These Dark Things and starring a detective with “one foot solidly planted in law enforcement [while] the other dangles in her old Naples neighborhood, which is awash in organized crime,” *A *Few Drops of Blood is “highly recommended for police-procedural and international-crime-fiction readers” (Booklist).