FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

I'm actually looking through the Kindle US monthly mystery deals before the last day of the month, which is sort of astounding for me .

I was surprised to see Night Game, by Alison Gordon, on the very last page (i.e. least "featured") of the deals - both because I really liked all of the books in this series, and because it's a little weird to see a "big publisher" book on the last page, after a bunch of other more dubious stuff. Sigh!

Anyway, I quite liked Gordon's short five-book Kate Henry series back in DTB days, and wish she would have written more. IMS, Gordon was herself a sportswriter, and I really liked her protagonist, Kate Henry, who reports on the fictional Toronto Titans while solving baseball-related crimes (and dealing with a good bit of misogyny as an early female sports reporter).

And I also really liked the title of the first book in the series, The Dead Pull Hitter, which is a marvelous pun IMO, is on my list of all-time great mystery titles, and is at $0.99 long-term if you want to try the first in the series.

And finally, there is a five-book bundle of all of the titles regularly priced at $9.99, which is not bad considering that, even with titles 1 and 3 at $0.99, the fifth title alone is also $9.99.

The Dead Pull Hitter, #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q35SNX2/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-dead-pull-hitter

Night Game, #3
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Game-Ka...dp/B00Q35SNVO/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/night-game-5

Alison Gordon/Kate Henry five-book bundle
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Alison-Gordon...dp/B00QFPZGHQ/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ali...ve-book-bundle

[murraypaul]

Death at La Fenice, the first in the Commissario Brunetti series by Donna Leon is on sale for $1.99 at Amazon US. Several of the later books in the series are also on sale.

[maddz]

Some new price drops on Ngaio Marsh on Amazon.co.uk:

Death at the Bar #9
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Bar-N...t%2C175&sr=1-5

Colour Scheme #12
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Colour-Sche...t%2C175&sr=1-6

When in Rome #26
https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Rome-N...t%2C175&sr=1-1

Photo Finish #31
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Photo-Finis...t%2C175&sr=1-4

Light Thickens #32
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Thick...t%2C175&sr=1-2

All are new drops to 99p each. (Note there are some older 99p titles as well, but the above are the new ones.)

[sufue]

The Hammond Innes Collection Volume Three contains Isvik, Air Bridge, Atlantic Fury, and Levkas Man. It has dropped to $3.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FND5S2D
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...n-volume-three

Spoiler:

Four action-packed thrillers from the author of The Wreck of the Mary Deare and “Great Britain’s leading adventure novelist” (Financial Times).

British novelist Hammond Innes was perhaps best known for his nautical mystery, The Wreck of the Mary Deare, which was made into a film starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston. But the prolific writer, World War II veteran, and dedicated yachtsman wrote over thirty novels of adventure and suspense during his long career. The collected fiction here spans the globe—from Antarctica to the Hebrides, Cold War Germany to sun-soaked Greece. As always, “for sheer excitement Hammond Innes will be hard to beat” (Daphne du Maurier).

Isvik: Isvik is a legend—a ghost ship that sits on the lip of Antarctica, two hundred years old at least, swallowed by the ice with severed masts and helmsman frozen to the wheel. Or so a glaciologist reported before his plane crashed on the ice shelf. Now, wealthy Scotsman Iain Ward is determined to find the frozen frigate—and he’s bringing along Peter Kettil, a wood preservation specialist and seasoned sailor himself. But Ward and Kettil are not the only ones willing to go to any lengths to discover the ship’s secrets . . .

“[A] dramatic adventure that will keep readers guessing until its startling climax.” —Publishers Weekly

Air Bridge: After his heroic service in World War II, pilot and aircraft engineer Neil Fraser must steal planes in order to make a living, flying them from England to the land that will soon become Israel. But when he’s caught by a ruthless tycoon, he’s forced to build the wealthy man a new aircraft engine. With dreams of conquering the sky, Bill Saeton wants Fraser to fly the plane over a divided Germany as part of the Berlin Airlift. But as Saeton’s ambition becomes a dangerous obsession, Fraser begins to look for a way to bail out.

“Authentic and excellent . . . His plot, characters and suspense live up to the setting.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Atlantic Fury: When a British army unit is ordered to evacuate from the remote, rocky island of Laerg in the Hebrides during a violent storm, it’s up to a pair of reunited brothers to save the group of soldiers—and each other.

“Nothing short of superb.” —The New York Times

Levkas Man: When his parents died, Paul was sent to Amsterdam to live with his mother’s old lover, the eccentric archaeologist Pieter Van der Voort, who was obsessed with the origins of man. After eight years at sea, Paul discovers Van der Voort is in Greece on an archaeological expedition that’s spiraling out of control. To reach Greece, Paul takes a job working for a smuggler, embarking on a journey that will carry him across the globe—and into the blackest depths of man’s most primal instinct.

“Quick-action adventure—a particularly interesting background.” —The Daily Telegraph

[Little.Egret]

Amazon UK

Busman's Honeymoon: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 13 (Lord Peter Wimsey Series) by Dorothy L. Sayers

99P ...

Recommended, Sequel to Gaudy Night

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003LPUXJO/


Also 99p

Unnatural Death: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 3 (Lord Peter Wimsey Series) by Dorothy L. Sayers

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003ODIX2C/


Clouds of Witness: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 2 (Lord Peter Wimsey Series) by Dorothy L. Sayers

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004GKMU4O/

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Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers is either £6.99

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004JHY6IC/

Or £3.06 as by Dorothy Leigh Sayers

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00R1T46K8/

[sufue]

The same four titles (and omnibus) have dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US again. Sadly, the first and second titles, Speaks the Nightbird and Queen of Bedlam, are still absurdly at $10.99 and up, and there is now a seventh title, Cardinal Black, published in 2019, that is $9.99. But still this is a good chunk of the series - books 3 though 6. The links in the quoted post are having some issues, so here is a new link for the Kindle books. Also, only one of these is $2.99 at Kobo US right now, so I'm just providing a link for that.

Kindle US (link includes a couple of other stray McCammon titles also priced at $2.99): http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?sea...price-asc-rank

Kobo US, Freedom of the Mask, #6, coupon/VIPable: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/freedom-of-the-mask

Originally Posted by sufue

Four of the six titles in the Matthew Corbett series by Robert McCammon, which comes highly recommended by @snape, have dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable). Two of them are actually in an omnibus that makes them $1.495 <grin> each, if you need both titles. A bunch of McCammon's other horror/thriller titles have also dropped to $2.99 - or may have already been $2.99 - I don't tend to follow thriller/horror much.

Matthew Corbett titles

• Matthew Corbett Adventures #1 contains Mister Slaughter (#3 in series) and The Providence Rider (#4) - these two titles are also available individually if you have one already and don't want to deal with the omnibus...
• The River of Souls (#5)
• The Freedom of the Mask (#6)

{edited}

links for all, including a couple of stray magazine/short story compilations:
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?se...price-asc-rank
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?Qu...cmaxprice=2.99

[melmac]

Originally Posted by sufue

The same four titles (and omnibus) have dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US again. Sadly, the first and second titles, Speaks the Nightbird and Queen of Bedlam, are still absurdly at $10.99 and up, and there is now a seventh title, Cardinal Black, published in 2019, that is $9.99.

Thanks i enjoyed book 1 and had book 2 from an audible sale so just picked up number 3, it’s just $1.99 to add the audio, bargain

[Dr. Drib]

I have a strange urge to put all of Robert M. McCammon's ebooks I own on both my Kobo and Kindle and start reading him all over again!

He's that good, in my opinion.

[disconnected]

Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries Book 8) by P. D. James is 1.99 at Amazon and Kobo US.

https://www.amazon.com/Devices-Desir...s%2C167&sr=8-1

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/devices-and-desires-9

[sufue]

And again at $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Links below are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

Now $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0024NP560
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dark-fire-5

Per SYKM and the blurb, this was the 2005 Historical Dagger Award winner.

[sufue]

Yay! This was the last one I needed in the series. Thanks!

Originally Posted by disconnected

Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries Book 8) by P. D. James is 1.99 at Amazon and Kobo US.

https://www.amazon.com/Devices-Desir...s%2C167&sr=8-1

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/devices-and-desires-9

[sufue]

A bunch of price drops at Kindle UK, mostly to £0.99, and mostly probably due to the new monthly sale...

Walking Shadows, Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, #25 by Faye Kellerman: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07B2NHZ9G

two in the Cole/Pike series by Robert Crais:
Stalking the Angel, #2: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004JHY8EY
The Wanted, #6: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01HMYA2EA

An Act of Villainy, £1.90, #5 in the Amory Ames series by Ashley Weaver, I got an ARC of an earlier title in this series and liked it, although it was very cozy: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07BRDVFP9

The Lost Plot, Invisible Library #4, by Genevieve Cogman: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06X6N22ZM

The Noble Path, a non-series title by Peter May: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07R4NWJBM

Red Mist, Kay Scarpetta # 19, by Patricia Cornwell: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005LN0DBW

continued...

[sufue]

...continued

Reconstruction, a non-series title by Mick Herron: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01KTS4XPK

Wrecked, third in the IQ series by Joe Ide, possibly on sale due to the next title in the series coming out early next year: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CL1JR4C

Island of the Mad, £1.79, most recent (2018) in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie R. King, finalist for a couple of awards, I was really happy to see this one on sale: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B075G49ZM1

Cold Case, Bob Skinner # 30, by Quintin Jardine: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B075QTGZH2

Under Attack, £1.79, Home Front Detective # 7, by Edward Marston: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B071J4GZP6

An Incomplete Revenge, fifth in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009P4A6SS

[sufue]

Several titles in Nicola Upson's series featuring real-life author Josephine Tey as the protagonist have dropped to £1.00 at Kindle UK.

Two for Sorrow, #3: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0042JSSHC/

Fear in the Sunlight, #4: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007JVF6U2

The Death of Lucy Kyte, #5: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D0UYUUS

Nine Lessons, #7: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074GDVMX3/

[sufue]

A few more from the Kindle UK monthly deals, all at £0.99 unless otherwise indicated:

Excursion to Tindari, Inspector Montalbano, #5, by Andrea Camilleri: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Excursion-T...dp/B004GKMHOC/

a couple of titles in the Inspector Banks series by Peter Robinson
The Hanging Valley, #4: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hanging-Val...dp/B003DWC6LS/
In a Dry Season, #10: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dry-Season-...dp/B003GK225W/

Heresy, Giordano Bruno #1, £2.64, by S. J. Parris: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heresy-Gior...dp/B003ATPQXY/