FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

Now $1.99 as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, not matched (at least as of now) at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Blue-...dp/B000FCK9CC/

Originally Posted by 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/

[issybird]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Actually it's a backlist book originally from a major publisher that's now being republished by the author after getting his rights back.

Originally Posted by sufue

While I understand that the rules of the forum prohibit self-pub unless you've read and liked it, as I've said before, I think this forum will be a friendlier place if some minimal effort (and I count 1 click as minimal effort) is made by the person who wants to dispute the publication status of a title before flatly stating in a post that it is a self-pub.

Thank you for the correction; my apology.

When a book is self-published, it would be helpful if the person posting the deal would note the extenuation, whether having read it or because the rights have reverted or whatever. I did follow through, just not effectively I'm afraid. I clicked on the Amazon link, saw the tell-tale indicators and Googled the publisher. Actually more than minimal effort although obviously misdirected and while I take sufue's point, the amount of vetting a mod can/will do is very much dependent on circumstances; why not preempt the need? Let's work together.

[sufue]

Cast a Yellow Shadow is the second in the “Mac” McCorkle/Mike Padillo series by Ross Thomas. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005PFN77I
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cast-a-yellow-shadow

Spoiler:

An old CIA connection brings trouble for a Washington, DC, barman in this thriller from “America’s best storyteller” (The New York Times Book Review).

As the saying goes, you can’t pick your friends. If you could, Mac McCorkle would disown Padilla. They owned a bar together in Bonn, the West German capital, and stayed partners even after Padilla’s sideline as a CIA operative got the bar blown up. Padilla was thought to be dead and erased from the CIA’s files—but now he’s back on the agency’s turf.

Mac moved to Washington, DC, after the trouble in Bonn to get married and open his bar anew. His new bride is beautiful, the bar is a success, and Padilla’s reappearance threatens everything. A group of African terrorists want Padilla to assassinate the prime minister of their small sub-Saharan republic—and they’ve kidnapped Mac’s wife to use as leverage.

[sufue]

I'm sorry, I appreciate that moderators are volunteers, but I don't think posters should have to "preempt the need". If moderators are doing a lot of work for free, so are posters, who also are volunteers.

Do you want us to state the publisher for every title we post? Just the questionable ones? What's questionable to me is probably not the same as what is questionable to you.

I think that looking for a prior traditionally published edition, and that checking SYKM (for the mystery forum) are two quick and easy ways that anyone, moderator or not, can take with only four clicks (one for the prior edition, and three for opening SYKM, clicking on the right author letter, and clicking on the author).

Then if that is ambiguous, then maybe a better thing to do is to ASK the poster if it is a self-pub, rather than flatly stating that it is a self-pub.

ADD: Just to clarify, I do agree that if it IS truly a self-pub, i.e. not rights-reverted, which I don't consider self-pub, then the poster should so note, and indicate that they have read and liked it.

Originally Posted by issybird

Thank you for the correction; my apology.

When a book is self-published, it would be helpful if the person posting the deal would note the extenuation, whether having read it or because the rights have reverted or whatever. I did follow through, just not effectively I'm afraid. I clicked on the Amazon link, saw the tell-tale indicators and Googled the publisher. Actually more than minimal effort although obviously misdirected and while I take sufue's point, the amount of vetting a mod can/will do is very much dependent on circumstances; why not preempt the need? It's a two-way street.

[sufue]

Murder Has a Motive is the second in the Mordecai Tremaine series by Francis Duncan (pen name for William Underhill). It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Motive...dp/B0748MLCGX/

Spoiler:

A classic Golden Age mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot

When Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station in the village of Dalmering, murder is the last thing on his mind. But he has never been able to resist anything in the way of a mystery—and a mystery is precisely what awaits him in the small hamlet.

Rehearsals for the local amateur dramatic production are in full swing, but as Mordecai discovers too soon, the real tragedy is unfolding offstage. The star of the show has been found dead, and the spotlight falls on Mordecai, whose reputation in the field of crime-solving precedes him.

With a murderer waiting in the wings, it's up to Mordecai to derail the killer's performance...before it's curtains for another victim.

[sufue]

Nice interview with Donna Leon in the New York Times. I'm on my phone, which I post from about twice a year, so I hope the link works...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/b...onna-leon.html

P. S. Just noticed a link to the full interview at the bottom of the article...

[issybird]

Originally Posted by sufue

I'm sorry, I appreciate that moderators are volunteers, but I don't think posters should have to "preempt the need".

I don't want to belabor the point, but since a deal shouldn't be posted unless it meets the parameters, it should be easy enough for the poster to indicate that it does meet the parameters when it is a self-published book. If they've checked and it's legit why not say so instead of having a mod jump through that hoop also?

But let's move on, please. Everyone is posting with good intentions and that would include the moderators.

[Byrdie]

Agatha Christie's Blue Train mystery is also $1.99 at Amazon.ca so I just bought it. Thanks for the tip!

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by sufue

Now $1.99 as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, not matched (at least as of now) at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Blue-...dp/B000FCK9CC/

Yeah, thanks for this one. A Poirot that I don't recall running into before!

[kg3]

I also posted this in the science fiction thread, it's cross-genre:

Originally Posted by kg3

FREE:

The Disappeared (A Retrieval Artist Novel, #1) Kristine Kathryn Rusch

-Originally published in 2002 by Penguin/Roc
-Science Fiction/Mystery/Detective

Amazon US---Amazon UK---Kobo US---Smashwords---Not Free at Amazon Canada & Australia when I checked

[pdurrant]

The first two Inspector Alan Grant novels by Josephine Tey are £1.99 at Amazon UK at the moment.

The Man in the Queue
A Shilling for Candles


And the sixth is just £0.99:

The SInging Sands

[kg3]

*** I just noticed you can also add Audible Narration for $1.99 when you "buy" the Freebie.

Audible Narration - US Link

Originally Posted by kg3

FREE:

The Disappeared (A Retrieval Artist Novel, #1) Kristine Kathryn Rusch

-Originally published in 2002 by Penguin/Roc
-Science Fiction/Mystery/Detective

Amazon US---Amazon UK---Kobo US---Smashwords---Not Free at Amazon Canada & Australia when I checked

[GA Russell]

Fail-Safe - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H196NCF

[sufue]

It's unusual for an Open Road Media title to go as low as $0.60 at Kindle US, which this one now has. So if you didn't buy at $1.99, maybe $0.60 will convince you . Link in the post below is still good.

And, if you prefer epub, it's only $0.99 at Kobo US, and is coupon/VIPable: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-night-she-died-2

Originally Posted by sufue

The Night She Died is the first in the Inspector Thanet series by Dorothy Simpson. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Died-In...dp/B071RRGQ7Z/

[sufue]

Journey to Munich is the 12th in the much-nominated/much-awarded Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01BOGSD9I