FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

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Murder Isn't Easy is a non-series title by Richard Hull. It has dropped to $0.99 as a US Kindle Countdown deal for about 1 1/4 more days.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B9LGQ9N

Spoiler:

Three men, three motives, one murder. Who will come out on top? No one ever said murder was easy.

Nicholas Latimer considers himself indispensable to advertising agency NeO-aD – unlike his partners Barraclough and Spencer. Sometimes Nicholas thinks it would be better if he was running it by himself. If only some unfortunate accident would befall his colleagues…

Paul Spencer has just about had it with Latimer’s incompetence and wilful time-wasting. Spencer knows for a fact that he is the cog that keeps NeO-aD rolling and wishes that Barraclough would take a stance and get Latimer out of the way.

And Barraclough? He just wants to do his job without the constant bickering of his two insufferable colleagues.

When a new client (approached by Latimer, he might add) presents an opportunity for the company to hit it big, Latimer contemplates taking matters into his own hands. He hasn’t considered, however, that Spencer and Barraclough might have plans of their own…

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The Disappeared is the most recent (2018) in the Joe Pickett series by C.J. Box. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Disappeared...dp/B0755YH443/

Spoiler:

No motive, no suspect, no trace.
Who doesn't want her found?

Joe Pickett is 300 miles from home, enduring the worst weather January in Wyoming can throw at you.

He's in the small mountain town of Saratoga, on the trail of a British woman who checked out of the remote ranch she was holidaying at and disappeared.

But the missing woman is only the beginning.

Something is not right in Saratoga. Why has the local game warden also disappeared? Why is local law enforcement spooked? Why is the new state governor taking such an interest in the case? Joe will have to find the answers before he too joins the disappeared.

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The Gate Keeper is the most recent (2018) in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series by Charles Todd. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713W4784
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-gate-keeper-4

Spoiler:

On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series.

Hours after his sister’s wedding, a restless Ian Rutledge drives aimlessly, haunted by the past, and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped in the middle of a desolate road. Standing beside the vehicle is a woman with blood on her hands and a dead man at her feet.

She swears she didn’t kill Stephen Wentworth. A stranger stepped out in front of their motorcar, and without warning, fired a single shot before vanishing into the night. But there is no trace of him. And the shaken woman insists it all happened so quickly, she never saw the man’s face.

Although he is a witness after the fact, Rutledge persuades the Yard to give him the inquiry, since he’s on the scene. But is he seeking justice—or fleeing painful memories in London?

Wentworth was well-liked, yet his bitter family paint a malevolent portrait, calling him a murderer. But who did Wentworth kill? Is his death retribution? Or has his companion lied? Wolf Pit, his village, has a notorious history: in Medieval times, the last wolf in England was killed there. When a second suspicious death occurs, the evidence suggests that a dangerous predator is on the loose, and that death is closer than Rutledge knows.

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Now May You Weep is the 9th in the Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James series by Deborah Crombie. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OI0E4U
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/now-may-you-weep

Spoiler:

Newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James has never thought to question her friend Hazel Cavendish about her past. So it is quite a shock when Gemma learns that their holiday retreat to a hotel in the Scottish Highlands is, in fact, Hazel's homecoming -- and that fellow guest Donald Brodie was once Hazel's lover, despite a vicious, long-standing feud between their rival, fine whiskey distilling families. And the fires of a fierce and passionate affair may not have burned out completely -- on Brodie's part at least, since he's prepared to destroy Hazel's marriage to win back his "Juliet." But when a sudden, brutal murder unleashes a slew of sinister secrets and long-seething hatreds, putting Hazel's life in peril, Gemma knows she will need help unraveling this very bloody knot -- and calls for the one man she trusts more than any other, Duncan Kincaid, to join her far from home ... and in harm's way.

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What Came Before He Shot Her is the 15th in the Inspector Lynley series by Elizabeth George. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MAH646
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wha...-he-shot-her-1

Spoiler:

The brutal, inexplicable death of Inspector Thomas Lynley's wife has left Scotland Yard shocked and searching for answers. Even more horrifying is that the trigger was apparently pulled by a twelve-year-old boy. Who is he? Where did he come from? And what were the circumstances that led to his final act of desperation?

That story begins on the other side of London, in rough North Kensington, where the three mixed-race, virtually orphaned Campbell children are bounced first from their grandmother then to their aunt. The oldest, fifteen-year-old Ness, is headed for trouble as fast as her high-heeled boots will take her. That leaves the middle child, Joel, to care for the youngest, Toby. No one wants to put it into words, but something clearly isn't right with Toby.

Before long, there are signs that Joel himself has problems. A local gang starts harassing him and threatening his brother. To protect his family, Joel makes a pact with the devil—a move that leads straight to the front doorstep of Thomas Lynley.

The anatomy of a murder, the story of a family in crisis, What Came Before He Shot Her is a powerful, emotional novel full of deep psychological insights, a novel that only the incomparable Elizabeth George could write.

[ZodWallop]

James Ellroy's epic noir novel L.A. Confidential is on sale for $2.99 at Amazon.

The also excellent movie adaptation is available on Netflix.

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Ten titles in the Merrily Watkins series by Phil Rickman are $1.99 each at Kindle US. The link below also includes one non-series horror/thriller title.

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

[MickeyC]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

James Ellroy's epic noir novel L.A. Confidential is on sale for $2.99 at Amazon.

The also excellent movie adaptation is available on Netflix.

Also on sale at Kobo for $2.99

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?qu...+Confidential+

[melmac]

Amazon Australia deals
The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn $0.99 add the audiobook for $2.99
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter $0.99 and the audio for $3.47
The Guards (Jack Taylor Bk 1) by Ken Bruen $0.99 and the audio $2.99

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Fifteen titles in the 87th Precinct series by Ed McBain have dropped to $0.99 each at Kindle US.

For some reason, searching by specific price doesn't seem to be working for me right now (???), so here's a link with all Ed McBain titles, sorted by ascending price. The fifteen sale titles are the first fifteen listed.

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

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by sufue

Fifteen titles in the 87th Precinct series by Ed McBain have dropped to $0.99 each at Kindle US.

For some reason, searching by specific price doesn't seem to be working for me right now (???), so here's a link with all Ed McBain titles, sorted by ascending price. The fifteen sale titles are the first fifteen listed.

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

Thanks for that! I was able to pick up book 2.

[Wearever]

Originally Posted by sufue

The Gate Keeper is the most recent (2018) in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series by Charles Todd. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713W4784
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-gate-keeper-4

Thanks sufue ! This was on my wishlist !

[ZodWallop]

Hmm... Isabell Allende's Ripper is $1.99. But the reviews have been... mixed.

Isabel Allende—the New York Times bestselling author whose books, including Maya’s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, and Zorro, have sold more than 57 million copies around the world—demonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with Ripper, an atmospheric, fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco.

The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet, while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian. Long divorced from Amanda’s father, she’s reluctant to settle down with either of the men who want her—Alan, the wealthy scion of one of San Francisco’s elite families, and Ryan, an enigmatic, scarred former Navy SEAL.

While her mom looks for the good in people, Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of human nature, like her father, the SFPD’s Deputy Chief of Homicide. Brilliant and introverted, the MIT-bound high school senior is a natural-born sleuth addicted to crime novels and Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world.

When a string of strange murders occurs across the city, Amanda plunges into her own investigation, discovering, before the police do, that the deaths may be connected. But the case becomes all too personal when Indiana suddenly vanishes. Could her mother’s disappearance be linked to the serial killer? Now, with her mother’s life on the line, the young detective must solve the most complex mystery she’s ever faced before it’s too late.

[ZodWallop]

James M. Caine's The Postman Always Rings Twice is $1.99 at Amazon.

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.

First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir. It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger.

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - FREE (Amazon US)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MKLMZ44