FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

The Mystery of the Blue Train is the 6th in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series. It has dropped to £0.99 as a UK Kindle Daily Deal today.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mystery-Blu...dp/B0046A9MQS/

Spoiler:

The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice…

When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again – for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing.

The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, Derek. Yet Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie re-enactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board…

[murraypaul]

Today's Daily Deal on Amazon UK is for (the English versions) of all except the first book in the Henning Mankell series of Kurt Wallander novels at 99p each.
List of included books

[Tarana]

Kobo and Amazon have most of the Lorimer & Brightman series by Alex Gray on sale for $2.99 each.The first and third books are also reduced, but more than $2.99.

[Lynx-lynx]

Philip Kerr's first three Bernie Gunther ebooks are going cheap in Kobo India.
https://www.kobo.com/in/en/ebook/the-berlin-noir-series

Sold as the Berlin Noir trilogy, they're only 170 rupees (that's AUD3.33 ish, so it'll work out cheaper in GBP, euro, usd, and about same in CAD)

Synopsis

Spoiler:

Berlin Noir: the first three thrillers in the internationally acclaimed and bestselling Bernie Gunther series. Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin. But then the Nazis came to power, and Bernie realised the most dangerous criminals were the ones in charge.

MARCH VIOLETS
Hired by a wealthy industrialist to investigate the murder of his daughter and her husband, Bernie finds himself drawn into the lethal internal politics of the Nazi party. When Hermann Goering himself calls Bernie in with a task for him that throws his existing case into a whole new light, he must weigh up his hatred of the Nazis against his desire to live.

THE PALE CRIMINAL
Five German schoolgirls are missing. Four have been found dead, victims of horrific ritual murders. Bernie Gunther is reluctant to investigate, but when Reynhard Heydrich gives you an order, you obey it if you want to stay alive. What Bernie discovers is far worse than a lone madman: an occult conspiracy at the very heart of the Nazi Party.

A GERMAN REQUIEM
Postwar Vienna was supposed to be somewhere quiet for Bernie to lie low. Then he is asked to clear an old Kripo colleague's name of murder. This man belonged to a secret society of Nazi hunters, and before he knows it Bernie is face to face with men who have been presumed dead for years. They got away with their crimes once. Bernie will see it doesn't happen again.

[sufue]

Good to see you again! It's been a while...

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

Philip Kerr's first three Bernie Gunther ebooks are going cheap in Kobo India.
https://www.kobo.com/in/en/ebook/the-berlin-noir-series

Sold as the Berlin Noir trilogy, they're only 170 rupees (that's AUD3.33 ish, so it'll work out cheaper in GBP, euro, usd, and about same in CAD)

Synopsis

Spoiler:

Berlin Noir: the first three thrillers in the internationally acclaimed and bestselling Bernie Gunther series. Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin. But then the Nazis came to power, and Bernie realised the most dangerous criminals were the ones in charge.

MARCH VIOLETS
Hired by a wealthy industrialist to investigate the murder of his daughter and her husband, Bernie finds himself drawn into the lethal internal politics of the Nazi party. When Hermann Goering himself calls Bernie in with a task for him that throws his existing case into a whole new light, he must weigh up his hatred of the Nazis against his desire to live.

THE PALE CRIMINAL
Five German schoolgirls are missing. Four have been found dead, victims of horrific ritual murders. Bernie Gunther is reluctant to investigate, but when Reynhard Heydrich gives you an order, you obey it if you want to stay alive. What Bernie discovers is far worse than a lone madman: an occult conspiracy at the very heart of the Nazi Party.

A GERMAN REQUIEM
Postwar Vienna was supposed to be somewhere quiet for Bernie to lie low. Then he is asked to clear an old Kripo colleague's name of murder. This man belonged to a secret society of Nazi hunters, and before he knows it Bernie is face to face with men who have been presumed dead for years. They got away with their crimes once. Bernie will see it doesn't happen again.

[sufue]

The Darling Dahlias and the Unlucky Clover is the most recent (2018) title in the Elizabeth Lacy/Darling Dahlias series by Susan Wittig Albert, who is perhaps better known for her China Bayles series. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US. Albert's books don't go on sale very often in the US, so grab it if you want it.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077ZJFKTN

Spoiler:

It is 1934. FDR is in the White House, the New Deal is in full swing, and Prohibition has finally been repealed. Bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert returns to Darling, Alabama, where the ladies of the local garden club aren’t afraid to dig a little dirt if that’s what it takes to cultivate a mystery . . .

When the Lucky Four Clovers run into a string of bad luck, it looks like the music may have ended for Darling’s favorite barbershop quartet—just when the Dixie Regional Barbershop Competition is about to take place. To complicate things, there’s a serious foul-up in Darling’s telephone system—and Myra May and Violet don’t have a penny for repairs. The town’s party lines may have to go out of business, which would be bad news for the gossips.

And it doesn’t help that newspaper editor/publisher Charlie Dickens is facing a crisis of confidence in his new wife, Fannie. Or that Liz Lacy (the Dahlias’ president) has to decide whether she’s ready for a do-over in her ill-fated romance with Grady Alexander. And what’s that secret her old friend Fremon is keeping? What does he know about what happened to the unlucky Clover on that dark night on the Jericho Road?

While liquor is legal again, moonshine isn’t, and as Sheriff Buddy Norris discovers when he goes into Briar Swamp to confront Cypress County’s most notorious bootlegger, it helps to have a little luck. But whatever the challenge, the Dahlias know that pie fixes everything. And you will, too, when you hear what they’re baking for Darling’s pie supper.

Once again, author Susan Wittig Albert has brought us a charming story of richly human characters who face the Great Depression with courage and grace. She reminds us that friends offer the best of themselves to each other, community is what holds us together, and luck is what you make of it.

Traditional Southern pie recipes (and a little cookery history) included!

[sufue]

Again at $1.99. Links below are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

Casanova Crimes is the seventh in the Elena Jarvis series by Nancy (Fairbanks) Herndon. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (couponable/VIPable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J90C4P6
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/casanova-crimes-1

[sufue]

Two titles by Deryn Lake have dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable). Both have been on sale not too long ago, so check carefully before you buy.

The Moonlit Door, Nick Lawrence, #3: info and links in this previous post

Death at the Wedding Feast, John Rawlings, #14: info and links in this previous post

[sufue]

For the Sake of Elena is the fifth in the Inspector Lynley/Sergeant Havers series by Elizabeth George. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001AX9QT2
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/for...ake-of-elena-1

Spoiler:

Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridge—where Elena was a student at St. Stephen's College—her father and his second wife each had their own very different image of the girl. As for Elena, she lived a life of casual and intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and goals to achieve—until someone, lying in wait along the route she ran every morning, bludgeoned her to death.

Unwilling to turn the killing over to the local police, the university calls in New Scotland Yard. Thus, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, enter the rarefied world of Cambridge University, where academic gowns often hide murderous intentions.

For both officers, the true identity of Elena Weaver proves elusive. Each relationship the girl left behind casts new light both on Elena and on those people who appeared to know her best—from an unsavory Swedish-born Shakespearean professor to the brooding head of the Deaf Students Union.

What's more, Elena's father, a Cambridge professor under consideration for a prestigious post, is a man with his own dark secrets. While his past sins make him neurotically dedicated to Elena and blind to her blacker side, present demons drive him toward betrayal.

[sufue]

Some Like It Hawk is the 14th in the Meg Langslow series by Donna Andrews, which IMO has some of the best puns in its titles of any series I know. (There are some others - Tamar Myers and Mary Daheim also come to mind - but a good series for puns...) In any case, Hawk has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0071NMGTM
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/some-like-it-hawk

Spoiler:

Meg helps run Caerphilly's summer arts and crafts festival while trying to smoke out a murderer—turn up the heat, because Some Like it Hawk!

The hilariously funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the award-winning New York Times bestselling series that has captured human and avian hearts alike. Meg Langslow is plying her blacksmith's trade at "Caerphilly Days," a festival inspired by her town's sudden notoriety as "The Town That Mortgaged Its Jail." The lender has foreclosed on all Caerphilly's public buildings, and all employees have evacuated —except one. Phineas Throckmorton, the town clerk, has been barricaded in the courthouse basement for over a year.

Mr. Throckmorton's long siege has only been possible because of a pre-Civil War tunnel leading from the courthouse basement to a crawl space beneath the bandstand. The real reason for Caerphilly Days is to conceal the existence of the tunnel: the tourist crowds camouflage supply deliveries, and the ghastly screeching of the tunnel's rusty trap door is drowned out by as many noisy activities as the locals can arrange. But the lender seems increasingly determined to evict Mr. Throckmorton—and may succeed after one of its executives is found shot, apparently from inside the basement. Meg and her fellow townspeople suspect that someone hopes to end the siege by framing Mr. Throckmorton. Unless the real killer can be found quickly, the town will have to reveal the secret of the tunnel—and the fact that they've been aiding and abetting the basement's inhabitant. Meg soon deduces that the killer isn't just trying to end the siege but to conceal information that would help the town reclaim its buildings--if the townspeople can find it before the lender destroys it in a gut-busting caper that will have giggles and guffaws coming as fast as a four-alarm fire.

[sufue]

Dance Hall of the Dead is the second in the Leaphorn/Chee/Manuelito series by Tony Hillerman. Per SYKM, this title won the 1974 Edgar Award for Best Mystery. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC11BU
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dance-hall-of-the-dead

Spoiler:

Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn's already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, to kill again.

[GlennD]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and it's sequels are on sale for $3.99 on Amazon US.

Link is to the Douglas Adams page sorted by price rather than linking each of the 5 books.


Edit: Apologies, wrong thread. Reposting in the right place.

[sufue]

Now $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075JDPJC4
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/int...-covent-garden

Originally Posted by murraypaul

Intrigue in Covent Garden, the 13th book in the Thomas Chaloner historical (17th century) mystery series by Susanna Gregory, is on sale for 99p at Amazon UK.

{edited other books out}

[sufue]

Pale Gray for Guilt is the ninth in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Books in this series don't go on sale very often in the US, so grab it if you want it.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008WOUMSG
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/pale-gray-for-guilt

Spoiler:

From a beloved master of crime fiction, Pale Gray for Guilt is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.

Travis McGee’s old football buddy Tush Bannon is resisting pressure to sell off his floundering motel and marina to a group of influential movers and shakers. Then he’s found dead. For a big man, Tush was a pussycat: devoted to his wife and three kids and always optimistic about his business—even when things were at their worst. So even though his death is ruled a suicide, McGee suspects murder . . . and a vile conspiracy.

“As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me.”—Dean Koontz

Tush Bannon was in the wrong spot at the wrong time. His measly plot of land just so happened to sit right in the middle of a rich parcel of five hundred riverfront acres that big-money real estate interests decided they simply must have.

It didn’t matter that Tush was a nice guy with a family, or that he never knew he was dealing with a criminal element. They squashed him like a bug and walked away, counting their change. But one thing they never counted on: the gentle giant had a not-so-gentle friend in Travis McGee. And now he’s going to make them pay.

[ZodWallop]

Joseph Wambaugh's Harbor Nocturne is $1.99 at Amazon.

The story begins in the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world’s busiest harbors, where an unlikely pair of lovers is caught up in terror and peril through no fault of their own.

When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman,delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, his life is forever changed as an unexpectedly tender and moving love story develops. Comedy and tragedy are intertwined in the everyday life of the cops and residents of San Pedro Harbor.