FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

The Melissa Craig Mystery Series: Books 1–3 is pretty much what it says it is - a compilation of the first three 1990s-era books (with different titles) in the Melissa Craig series by Betty Rowlands. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK.

Titles include:

• Murder at Hawthorn Cottage, apa A Little Gentle Sleuthing
• Murder in the Morning, apa Finishing Touch
• Murder on the Clifftops, apa Over the Edge

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07ND3PLL1

[ZodWallop]

The Con Man (87th Precinct Mysteries Book 4) by Ed McBain is $0.99 at Amazon US

A con man is plying his trade on the streets of Isola: conning a domestic for pocket change, businessmen for thousands, and even ladies in exchange for a little bit of love. You can see the world, meet a lot of nice people, imbibe some unique drinks, and make a ton money…all by conning them for their cash.

The question is: How far is he willing to go?

When a young woman's body washes up in the Harb River, the answer to that question becomes tragically clear. Now Detective Steve Carella races against time to find him before another con turns deadly. The only clue he has to go on is the mysterious tattoo on the young woman’s hand—but it’s enough. Carella takes to the streets, searching its darkest corners for a man who cons his victims out of their money…and their lives.

[sufue]

And also Shotgun (at $0.99), which is, according to the blurb, the 23rd in the series.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005WZZR9M

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Con Man (87th Precinct Mysteries Book 4) by Ed McBain is $0.99 at Amazon US

[sufue]

Presumably in honor of the Fourth of July here in the US...

Red, White, and Blue Murder, which is the 12th in the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series by Bill Crider, has dropped to $2.99 as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Red-White-Blu...dp/B007TNBRUI/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/red...nd-blue-murder

Spoiler:

The 12th mystery featuring Sheriff Dan Rhodes. With the author's quietly hilarious humor and fine characterization of Rhodes and the other residents of Blacklin County, TX, Crider once more shows the human side of small town law enforcement. A man dies in a fire; fireworks are involved in further threats and someone is spreading lies about the leading local figures, even including Rhodes himself. But the unflappable, commonsense lawman does his best--and a very good best it is.

"Just plain good storytelling... Crider's easy prose fits the setting to a tee and brings all the smalltown schemes, quirks and characters to true and amusing life." - Publishers Weekly

[sufue]

A few titles in the Ava Lee series by Ian Hamilton are $2.99 each at Kobo US (coupon/VIPable). Unusually, there are more titles on sale at Kobo US than Kindle US - only two are $2.99 at Kindle US, at least as of now...

The King of Shanghai, #7
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-king-of-shanghai

The Imam of Tawi-Tawi, #10 per Fantastic Fiction, #11 per Kobo
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-imam-of-tawi-tawi

The Goddess of Yantai, #11 per Fantastic Fiction, #12 per Kobo
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-goddess-of-yantai
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HHKX9F3/

And also, Fate, which is the first in the spin-off Uncle Chow Tung series
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/fate-65
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J2VYFZL/

[GA Russell]

The Last Detective (Elvis Cole #9) - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Detectiv...dp/B000FBFN24/

[ZodWallop]

Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart is $1.99 at Amazon US.

On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.

Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded by the Emperor himself.

When a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on Tibetan bandits. But Li Du suspects this was no random killing. Everyone has secrets: the ambitious magistrate, the powerful consort, the bitter servant, the irreproachable secretary, the East India Company merchant, the nervous missionary, and the traveling storyteller who can't keep his own story straight.

Beyond the sloping roofs and festival banners, Li Du can see the mountain pass that will take him out of China forever. He must choose whether to leave, and embrace his exile, or to stay, and investigate a murder that the town of Dayan seems all too willing to forget.

[WillAdams]

A bunch of the James Bond novels are on sale for $0.99

3 - Moonraker: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008L40R1E/
4 - Diamonds are Forever: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008L40OW6/
5 - From Russia with Love: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008L40PFW/
6 - Dr. No: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008L40Q7E/
7 - Goldfinger: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008L40OWG/
8 - For Your Eyes Only: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008L40Q1K/
9 - Thunderball: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008L40OZ8/
14 - Octopussy and the Living Daylights: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008L40QGK/

[soulfuldog]

Today's Big Deal in the UK has five random Ian Rankin Rebus books on offer at 99p:

Kindle books by Ian Rankin

1. Tooth and Nail (Rebus 3?) - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tooth-Nail-...dp/B002UPVVNI/
2. The Black Book (Rebus 5) - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Book-...dp/B002U3CBLQ/
3. Mortal Causes (Rebus 6) - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mortal-Caus...dp/B002U3CCG0/
4. Resurrection Men (Rebus 13) - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Resurrectio...dp/B002U3CCXI/
5. Even Dogs in the Wild (Rebus 20) - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Even-Dogs-W...dp/B00ULQH1CS/

[Tarana]

Originally Posted by sufue

And also Shotgun (at $0.99), which is, according to the blurb, the 23rd in the series.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005WZZR9M

Thanks for this. I buy the books to get the audiobooks for $1.99. I think I only need 5 more titles (with audiobooks) to complete this series. When I started this series, some of the titles did not have a whispersync discount.

[murraypaul]

Originally Posted by sufue

Five titles in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear have dropped to £0.99 each at Kindle UK.

Titles are:

• Pardonable Lies, #3
• Messenger of Truth, #4
• Among the Mad, #6
• The Mapping of Love and Death, #7
• Elegy for Eddie, #9

link for all five: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search/?...price-asc-rank

Book 1 has dropped to £1.90 at Amazon UK.

[sufue]

I think Sheri Cobb South started as a romance author, with some traditionally published romances. In any case, once upon a time, at some used bookstore or other, I picked up a DTB of South's In Milady's Chamber, which is the first in her John Pickett historical mystery series. Although it reads almost as much like a romance as like a mystery, I enjoyed it. (Full disclosure: I do read some romances from time-to-time too...)

Chamber is now free at both Kindle and Kobo US, and I'll get to get another book off my shelves - woo-hoo!

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Miladys-Chamb...dp/B07GZYRTZ9/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/in-milady-s-chamber-1

Spoiler:

Low dealings in high society...

Estranged from her husband through her failure to produce an heir, Lady Fieldhurst resolves to repay his neglect by taking a lover. Fate takes a hand when she and her would-be lover enter her bedchamber to find Lord Fieldhurst lying on the floor--with her nail scissors protruding from his neck. Bow Street Runner John Pickett, twenty-four years old and new to the Bow Street force, has spent most of his brief career chasing petty thieves and pickpockets. Nothing in his experience has prepared him for low dealings in high society--or for the beautiful young widow who is the chief suspect.

[badgoodDeb]

Thanks -- got it too!

[sufue]

The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper is the 10th in the Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. As I always say when titles in this series drop, grab it now if you want it, because these only rarely go on sale in the US, and I can't remember ever seeing one repeat on sale.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Plain-Br...dp/B009FKXUNK/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-brown-wrapper

Spoiler:

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.

He had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she’s dead, and Travis McGee finds that Helena Pearson Trescott had one last request of him: to find out why her beautiful daughter Maureen keeps trying to kill herself. But what can a devil-may-care beach bum do for a young troubled mind?

“The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author.”—Jonathan Kellerman

McGee makes his way to the prosperous town of Fort Courtney, Florida, where he realizes pretty quickly that something’s just not right. Not only has Maureen’s doctor killed herself, but a string of murders and suicides are piling up—and no one seems to have any answers.

Just when it seems that things can’t get any stranger, McGee becomes the lead suspect in the murder of a local nurse. As if Maureen didn’t have enough problems, the man on a mission to save her will have to save himself first—before time runs out.

[sufue]

Guardian Angel is the 7th in the V. I. Warshawski series by Sara Paretsky. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ON78RU
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/guardian-angel-15

Spoiler:

“The best of the Warshawski novels!”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

Underneath V. I. Warshawski’s wisecracking P.I. exterior lies a real pushover. When elderly neighbor Mr. Contreras asks her to look into a fellow union retiree’s sudden disappearance, she says “yes” from her heart, not her head. And when a crotchety eighty-year-old dog owner starts wrangling with a Yuppie-Come-Lately couple on their blue-collar street, again, it’s V.I. to the rescue.

Only it all goes to hell in a handbasket when Mr. Yuppie turns out to be a lawyer in V.I.’s ex-husband’s law firm, and the missing retiree turns up floating facedown in a canal. And now V.I.’s strapping on her shoulder holster to snoop into Chicago’s labor unions and politicos, because being on the side of the angels won’t win her any halos… but it’s the perfect place for an encounter with violent death.