FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

I should point out that they have eBooks of these stories!

I spent about $50 this Christmas on ebooks from them when ebooks were half-price. If you get on their mailing list, you get - I can't remember exactly - 1 free ebook and 1 free audio book.

In addition to that they send you an email every Friday with new items - typically 2 ebooks and 3 or 4 audiobooks, at half-price. We're talking $1.99 [ebooks] - $4.99 [audiobooks.]

[Dr. Drib]

Looks like there's about 6 (?) Robert B. Parker ebook titles from Kobo.uk available on sale for £0.99.

I haven't checked Amazon.

[GA Russell]

The Charlie Muffin Thrillers Volume One: Charlie M, Here Comes Charlie M, and The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin - $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07785FPTL

[sufue]

The Reckoning, also translated as The Vortex, is the second in the Freyja/Huldar Children's House series by Yrsa Sigurdardottir.

It has dropped to $2.99 in the US and £0.99 in the UK (a lot less, if you live in the UK or can travel).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DZZ64L3
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-reckoning-135
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reckoning-C...dp/B072F25K4R/

Spoiler:

The Reckoning is the stunning follow-up to The Legacy, which was the start of a thrilling new series that Booklist (starred) recommends for fans of Tana French.

Vaka sits, regretting her choice of coat, on the cold steps of her new school. Her father appears to have forgotten to pick her up, her mother has forgotten to give her this week’s pocket money, and the school is already locked for the day. Grownups, she decides, are useless.

With no way to call home, she resigns herself to waiting on the steps until her father remembers her. When a girl approaches, Vaka recognizes her immediately from class, and from her unusual appearance: two of her fingers are missing. The girl lives at the back of the school, on the other side of a high fence, and Vaka asks to call her father from the girl's house. That afternoon is the last time anyone sees Vaka.

Detective Huldar and child psychologist Freyja are called in. Soon, they find themselves at the heart of another shocking case.

From the international number one-bestselling author of The Silence of the Sea, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel Yrsa Sigurdardottir returns with the follow-up to The Legacy.

[sufue]

Some price drops at Kindle UK, probably mostly due to the new monthly sale, all at £0.99 each, unless otherwise indicated.

The Allingham Minibus: Short mysteries perfect for the festive season, by Margery Allingham (I got to read an ARC of this, and although I liked most of the stories, I'm not sure I'd call this "perfect for the festive season" unless the "festive season" under discussion is Halloween - most of these are sort of ghost/macabre stories, and not very festive. Of course, YMMV...): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Allingham-M...dp/B07Y22P76Z/

W is for Wasted, Wth (and next to next to last) in the Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DZQYJZ8

Field Grey, 7th in the Bernie Gunther series by Philip Kerr: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004OR10J0

Down Cemetery Road, first in the Zoe Boehm series by Mick Herron: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01KTS4ZYO

First Frost, first in James Henry's prequel series to RD Wingfield's Jack Frost series: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004J4VZE8

The Railway Detective, first in the Railway Detective series by Edward Marston: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006WB7MMU

The Patience of the Spider, eighth in the excellent IMO Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004GKMHLK

[sufue]

Several price drops on titles by Andrew Taylor to £0.99 at Kindle UK. Most are in Taylor's Lydmouth series.

The Mortal Sickness, Lydmouth #2: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008K5TF08/

The Lover of the Grave, Lydmouth #3: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008K5TGP2/

Where Roses Fade, Lydmouth #5: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008K5T78S/

Death's Own Door, Lydmouth #6: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008K5TM0G/

The Fire Court, James Marwood/Cat Lovett #2: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01MQFC1DS/

[sufue]

Four titles in the Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series by PD James, and also one non-series title, have dropped to £1.99 at Kindle UK.

The Black Tower, Dalgliesh #5: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002RI90DQ/

Original Sin, Dalgliesh #9: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002RI90IG/

A Certain Justice, Dalgliesh #10:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002RI9ZXG/

The Private Patient, Dalgliesh #14: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002RI91IA/

The Children of Men, non-series (looks more like dystopian fiction than a mystery): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002RI9YDC/

[sufue]

The third title in this series, The Fleur de Sel Murders, has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. I've read and liked the first two in this series, and also the upcoming Feb 2020 title, A Killing Tide, which I got to read as an ARC. But I am a bit biased since I'm quite fond of mysteries set in France...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0763SG7QG/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...de-sel-murders

Originally Posted by sufue

Death in Brittany, apa Death in Pont-Aven, is the first in the Commissaire Dupin series by Jean-Luc Bannalec. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. I've read this one, and enjoyed it, although I enjoy Martin Walker's France-based series a bit more, but the other two in the series have so far remained too expensive ($9.99 +) for me.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Brittan...dp/B00QQ9ST1Q/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/death-in-brittany

[sufue]

Bonefire of the Vanities is the 12th in the Sarah Booth Delaney series by Carolyn Haines. Books in this series don't go on sale very often, so grab it if you want it. I quite enjoyed the early titles in this series in DTB, but sort of lost track of the series after I started reading ebooks almost exclusively. Still, I'm happy to see this one at $2.99, and it will be pretty high up on my TBR list.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Bonefire-Vani...dp/B007NK5EYC/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bon...f-the-vanities

Spoiler:

Despite the wishes of her overprotective fiancé, Sarah Booth Delaney can't give up her detective work, no matter how dangerous it becomes. It's too much a part of her. On this case, avoiding danger might be impossible—she's on the trail of a porn-star-turned-psychic operating from a haunted estate on the edge of town. Medium Sherry Cameron promises to reunite grieving family members with their dearly departed, but it seems vaguely suspicious that Sherry will only accept emotionally vulnerable and tremendously wealthy clients. Aging billionaire Marjorie Littlefield fits the profile perfectly—her daughter died in a tragic accident as a young girl, she's been estranged from her son for decades, and she's planning to leave her considerable inheritance to her cat.

Convinced she's uncovered a scheme to separate a lonely woman from her fortune, Sarah Booth talks her way onto the estate as a maid, where she finds Marjorie and several other wealthy eccentrics ready to commune with the dead. Between chores, Sarah Booth explores the estate, mingles with the other staff…and finds a few dead bodies. But which guest or staff member might be the killer? Even Jitty, Sarah Booth's personal haint, won't tell until Sarah Booth has uncovered all of Sherry's well-kept secrets.

With spooks and charlatans around every corner, Sarah Booth is the only PI in the southlands who can put an end to this elaborate scam in Bonefire of the Vanities, the charming twelfth entry in Carolyn Haines's sparkling series.

[Little.Egret]

Endeavour, free

Follow That Gun (Keith Calder Book 23) … by Gerald Hammond

For many years Keith Calder has been making lucrative sales of his antique guns to Mr Foster, an agent for major collectors. However, Keith’s daughter Deborah is suspicious of the buyer. Why does he always pay such large sums in cash? Why does his car have fake number plates? When it turns out Foster was running a money-laundering scam, they tell the police, and Foster’s cover is blown.

When only a few weeks later a raid on the Calder home leaves Keith and his brother-in-law Ronnie in hospital, and the family’s valuable gunroom empty, it’s clear who’s to blame. So it’s up to Deborah, with her husband Detective Inspector Ian Fellowes, to follow the trail to the guns – and to a ruthless man who will stop at nothing. Not even murder

https://www.amazon.com/Follow-That-K...dp/B07YZD2YVW/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Follow-That...dp/B07YZD2YVW/

https://www.amazon.ca/Follow-That-Ke...dp/B07YZD2YVW/

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https://www.amazon.com/Follow-That-K...s%2C145&sr=8-1

[sufue]

Only Good Yankee is the second in Jeff Abbott's short 4-book Jordan Poteet series. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Per SYKM, the first book in this series, Do Unto Others, won a couple of "Best First Book" awards.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001OXCEQ0/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/only-good-yankee

Spoiler:

Mirabeau, Texas, is a dynamite little town -- especially when toolsheds, doghouses, and mailboxes mysteriously begin to explode. So far, the sole victim is local librarian Jordan Poteet, struck by a chunk of his girlfriend's mailbox. Yet Jordy gets an even bigger jolt when his ex-girlfriend, Lorna, arrives from Boston. She's come to scoop up everybody's riverfront property -- and, if possible, Jordy as well.

With pro-development folk and die-hard environmentalists all foaming at the mouth, tempers become downright murderous. And the unfortunate victim is Lorna's handsome colleague, garroted with a piece of barbed wire at the Mirabeau B&B.

Dynamite, lust, murder...what next? Mirabeau braces for the worst and gets it -- while Jordy, his true love Candace, and Police Chief Junebug Moncrief light out after a killer...

Agatha Award-winning author of Do Unto Others.

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Thanks!!! I've ordered the Doc Savage and Shadow bundles.

My package arrived today. Everything appears to be in perfect shape.

I received 15 books for $28.00 total ($24.00 plus $4.00 shipping, with no tax). That comes to $1.87 each.

Thanks Don!

[Avice]

Persona Non Grata: A Novel of the Roman Empire is the third book in Ruth Downie's Gaius Petreius Ruso / Medicus series of historical medical mysteries set in Roman-occupied Britain. The ebook is on sale today for $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002WOD8YC
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/per...e-roman-empire

Persona Non Grata was originally published in the UK under the title Ruso and the Root of All Evils.

[sufue]

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

Originally Posted by sufue

Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse is the next to most recent (2017) in the Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Titles in this series don't go on sale very often, so grab it if you want it!

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Aunt-Dimity-W...dp/B01KGZVWTG/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/aun...-widow-s-curse