FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

Requiem for a Gypsy is the fourth in the Commander Jana Matinova series by Michael Genelin. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Gypsy...dp/B004OR1LYE/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/requiem-for-a-gypsy-3

Spoiler:

This novel of murder, corruption, and police work takes place in modern-day Slovakia by an author who “seems incapable of writing a dull page” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

When the wife of one of Slovakia’s most prominent businessmen is killed in a very public assassination, it looks like the bullets were meant for her husband. But could she have been the primary target?

Cdr. Jana Matinova must push through her own government’s secretiveness and intransigence to discover what connects the murder of Klara Boganova to an anonymous man run down in Paris, a dead Turk with an ice pick in his eye, and an international network of bank accounts linking back to the Second World War, in this crime thriller that is “rich in compelling plot twists” (The Washington Post).

[Difflugia]

Adam's Rib: A Rocco Schiavone Mystery by Antonio Manzini is free at Barnes & Noble. It's today's "Free Friday" selection and, unusually, it's not free at either Kobo or Amazon.

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by dom38

#9 and #16 are free today:

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

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

Thanks...needed 16. only 7 to go

[sufue]

But you can price match it at Kobo, if you're willing to take the screenshots to back it up in case you have to. I've price-matched probably 30-40 books over a few years at Kobo, and have had to use my screenshots twice. And in each case, after providing the screenshots, I got the match. The rest of the time it all went smoothly.

So, I guess it's the hassle of dealing with not-easily-downloadable Nook books, or the hassle of price-match at Kobo...take your pick...

Originally Posted by Difflugia

Adam's Rib: A Rocco Schiavone Mystery by Antonio Manzini is free at Barnes & Noble. It's today's "Free Friday" selection and, unusually, it's not free at either Kobo or Amazon.

[sufue]

Free again at Kindle US. Nice chance to get all nine titles for free, if you haven't already picked them all up individually over the years when they've been free. This one never stays free very long, so grab it if you need/want it. Link below is still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

Now all nine of Smith's Skip Langdon titles are free in an omnibus at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Skip-Langdon-...dp/B00NT2RXZ6/

[sufue]

Pursuit of Arms is the 8th in the Keith Calder series by Gerald Hammond. It is free right now at Kindle US and Kindle UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Arms-...dp/B07FYLWJMM/
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pursuit-Arm...dp/B07FYLWJMM/

Spoiler:

Keith Calder returns

Keith Calder struck a deal with Eddie Adoni for the overhaul of a load of Sterlings and Brownings, although he knew that Eddie’s reputation as an arms dealer was mixed. But the lorry transporting the guns was hijacked outside Keith’s workshop, leaving two men dead.

Keith, aided by his brother-in-law and surreptitiously by Superintendent Munro, begins his own search — a quest which becomes urgent when a member of his family is kidnapped by the hijackers.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by sufue

Free again at Kindle US. Nice chance to get all nine titles for free, if you haven't already picked them all up individually over the years when they've been free. This one never stays free very long, so grab it if you need/want it. Link below is still good.

Thanks!

Also free at Amazon UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Skip-Langdo.../dp/B00NT2RXZ6

[GeoffR]

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir's The Reckoning (Children's House #2) is $2.99 at Australian / New Zealand retailers.

[sufue]

Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is nine Peter Robinson/Inspector Banks titles for £0.99 each.

link to the deal page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=s9_ac...d_i=1000577623

Titles include:

• Sleeping in the Ground
• When the Music's Over
• Watching the Dark
• Bad Boy
• Piece of My Heart
• All the Colours of Darkness
• Abattoir Blues
• Children of the Revolution
• Friend of the Devil

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by sufue

Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is nine Peter Robinson/Inspector Banks titles for £0.99 each.

link to the deal page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=s9_ac...d_i=1000577623

Titles include:

• Sleeping in the Ground
• When the Music's Over
• Watching the Dark
• Bad Boy
• Piece of My Heart
• All the Colours of Darkness
• Abattoir Blues
• Children of the Revolution
• Friend of the Devil

A superb series, if anyone doesn't have them. Highly recommended.

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Anne Hillerman's fourth title in her continuation of her father's Manuelito/Leaphorn/Chee series, Cave of Bones, has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. This is a nice price drop on a recent (2018) title, and I have a couple of plane flights coming up this week, so will be happy to get to read this then.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Cave-Bones-Le...dp/B071KYZBT5/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cave-of-bones

Spoiler:

A New York Times Bestseller

Anne Hillerman brings together modern mystery, Navajo traditions, and the evocative landscape of the desert Southwest in this intriguing entry in the Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito series.

When Tribal Police Officer Bernadette Manuelito arrives to speak at an outdoor character-building program for at-risk teens, she discovers chaos. Annie, a young participant on a solo experience due back hours before, has just returned and is traumatized. Gently questioning the girl, Bernie learns that Annie stumbled upon a human skeleton on her trek. While everyone is relieved that Annie is back, they’re concerned about a beloved instructor who went out into the wilds of the rugged lava wilderness bordering Ramah Navajo Reservation to find the missing girl. The instructor vanished somewhere in the volcanic landscape known as El Malpais. In Navajo lore, the lava caves and tubes are believed to be the solidified blood of a terrible monster killed by superhuman twin warriors.

Solving the twin mysteries will expose Bernie to the chilling face of human evil. The instructor’s disappearance mirrors a long-ago search that may be connected to a case in which the legendary Joe Leaphorn played a crucial role. But before Bernie can find the truth, an unexpected blizzard, a suspicious accidental drowning, and the arrival of a new FBI agent complicate the investigation.

While Bernie searches for answers in her case, her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee juggles trouble closer to home. A vengeful man he sent to prison for domestic violence is back—and involved with Bernie’s sister Darleen. Their relationship creates a dilemma that puts Chee in uncomfortable emotional territory that challenges him as family man, a police officer, and as a one-time medicine man in training.

Anne Hillerman takes us deep into the heart of the deserts, mountains, and forests of New Mexico and once again explores the lore and rituals of Navajo culture in this gripping entry in her atmospheric crime series.

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Locked Rooms is the eighth in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie R King. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Locked-Rooms-...dp/B000FCK5TY/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/locked-rooms

Spoiler:

En route to San Francisco to settle her family’s estate, Mary Russell, in the company of husband Sherlock Holmes, falls prey to troubling dreams—and even more troubling behavior. In 1906, when Mary was six, the city was devastated by a catastrophic earthquake. For years Mary has insisted she lived elsewhere at the time. But Holmes knows better.

Soon it is clear that whatever unpleasantness Mary wanted to forget hasn’t forgotten her. A series of mysterious deaths leads Russell and Holmes from the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parent’s marriage and the tragic “accident” that Mary alone survived. What Russell discovers is that even a forgotten past never dies . . . and it can kill again.

BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Laurie R. King's* The God of the Hive and Pirate King.*

[sufue]

The Doorbell Rang is one of my favorite Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin titles by Rex Stout. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK and $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Stout's titles rarely go on sale in the US, so grab it if you want it!

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Doorbell-Rang...dp/B003O86QA8/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-doorbell-rang
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doorbell-Ra...dp/B003O86QA8/

Spoiler:

There’s no one and nothing the great detective Nero Wolfe wouldn’t take on if the price was right. That’s something wealthy society widow Rachel Bruner is counting on when she writes him a check for a whopping hundred grand. But even Wolfe has a moment’s doubt when he finds out why the prize is so generous. For the oversize genius and his able assistant Archie Goodwin are about to lock horns with the FBI—and those highly trained G-men have a way with threats, tails, and bugs that could give even sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe a run for his money.

Introduction by Stuart Kaminsky

“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review

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Kissed a Sad Goodbye is the sixth in the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series by Deborah Crombie. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Kissed-Goodby...dp/B004JHYS1M/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/kissed-a-sad-goodbye-2

Spoiler:

Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James face their most haunting case yet when the past devastatingly intersects with the present....

The call from Scotland Yard couldn't have come at a worse time for Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid. He has promised the weekend to Kit, the eleven-year-old son of his ex-wife. The son he never knew he fathered -- who doesn't yet know Kincaid's true identity.

But Duncan's best intentions are shattered by an investigation that draws him in and swiftly consumes him. It seems to begin with the discovery of the body of a beautiful young woman in an East London park. But Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James will discover that this case has long roots that reach far back into the past, and that resentments which should have been decades buried still have the power to hurt -- and maybe even the capacity to kill.

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Shadows on the Ivy is the third in the Maggie Summer series by Lea Wait. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Ivy-A...dp/B000NY12UU/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/shadows-on-the-ivy

Spoiler:

Maggie Summer has three loves: her antique print business, Shadows; her career as a community college professor in Somerset County, New Jersey; and the new man in her life, Will Brewer. Her biological clock is pushing her to decide whether she's ready to add a fourth love: an adopted child.

Although Will is on the road just now, Maggie's life is full. She uses prints by Currier & Ives, Thomas Nast, and William Ludwell Sheppard to illustrate her lectures on American cultural history, and Oliver and Dorothy Whitcomb, a wealthy couple who are on the college board, are two of her best customers.

When the Whitcombs design and dedicate a special dormitory for single parents and their children, Maggie is thrilled to become the faculty adviser to the young parents. Her new assignment gives her plenty of time to think about what single parenthood would mean for her. Plenty of time -- until one of the young mothers is poisoned, and the web of danger at the dorm threatens to encircle Maggie.

There is a killer on campus. Is it an outsider or someone Maggie knows and trusts? Does someone want to destroy Whitcomb House or the college? And is Maggie in as much danger as her students?

As always, Maggie finds the answers to her questions in the antique prints she knows and loves. And this time, torn between her own needs and those of her students, the most important discoveries Maggie makes are about herself.

Rich with appealing characters and fascinating insiders' lore about antique prints, Shadows on the Ivy is the best yet in this award-nominated series from an author who brilliantly brings together her knowledge of prints and her love of storytelling.