FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

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Apologies if some of these are repeats. There are too many sales to keep track.

A Dangerous Engagement: An Amory Ames Mystery #6 by Ashley Weaver is $2.99

https://smile.amazon.com/Dangerous-E...t%2C166&sr=1-1

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No Sunscreen for the Dead (Serge Storms Book 22) by Tim Dorsey is $1.99. It's next to last book published if you've stayed with the series this long.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...oreType=ebooks

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Working Stiff (Mattie Winston Mysteries Book 1) by Annelise Ryan is $2.99

https://smile.amazon.com/Working-Sti...B0CKEM6&sr=1-4

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Books 2 and 3 in the Inspector McLean series are on sale $2.99

The Book of Souls by James Oswald
https://smile.amazon.com/Book-Souls-...XZKET0&sr=1-12

The Hangman's Song by James Oswald
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...oreType=ebooks

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A couple of price drops to $1.99 each on books pubbed by Hard Case Crime...

The Count of 9 is a bit more than half-way through Erle Stanley Gardner's somewhat lesser known Bertha Cool/Donald Lam series (originally pub using pen name AA Fair)
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079DBDNBM
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-count-of-9

Spoiler:

From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency

Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of PERRY MASON - at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print, including the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Gardner was also one of the most ingenious plot-spinners in the field, coming up with stunning twists and reveals... and THE COUNT OF 9 is Gardner at his twistiest.

Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha and Donald confront an impossible crime: how could anything be smuggled out of a dinner party - least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun - when the guests were X-rayed coming and going? But that's nothing compared to the crime they face next: AN IMPOSSIBLE MURDER...

The Comedy is Finished, a posthumously published non-series title by Donald E Westlake (SYKM says it was written sometime before 1983)
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00541AVRM
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-comedy-is-finished

Spoiler:

BUT SERIOUSLY, FOLKS.

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go.

Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents and veteran of countless USO tours to buck up American troops in the field. And not the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People's Revolutionary Army, who've decided that kidnapping Koo Davis would be the perfect way to bring their cause back to life...

The final, previously unpublished novel from the legendary Donald Westlake!

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A Bitter Feast is the most recent (2019) in the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series by Deborah Crombie. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Nice to see a nice price drop on a most recent title.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H4YS6X2
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-bitter-feast-1

Spoiler:

New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie returns with a mesmerizing entry in her “excellent” (Miami Herald) series, in which Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are pulled into a dangerous web of secrets, lies, and murder that simmers beneath the surface of a tranquil Cotswolds village.

Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his wife, Detective Inspector Gemma James, have been invited for a relaxing weekend in the Cotswolds, one of Britain’s most enchanting regions, famous for its rolling hills, golden cottages, and picturesque villages.

Duncan, Gemma, and their children are guests at Beck House, the family estate of Melody Talbot, Gemma’s detective sergeant. The Talbot family is wealthy, prominent, and powerful—Melody’s father is the publisher of one of London’s largest and most influential newspapers. The centerpiece of this glorious fall getaway is a posh charity harvest luncheon catered by up-and-coming chef Viv Holland. After fifteen years in London’s cut-throat food scene, Viv has returned to the Gloucestershire valleys of her childhood and quickly made a name for herself with her innovative meals based on traditional cuisine but using fresh local ingredients. Attended by the local well-to-do as well as national press food bloggers and restaurant critics, the event could make Viv a star.

But a tragic car accident and a series of mysterious deaths rock the estate and pull Duncan and Gemma into the investigation. It soon becomes clear that the killer has a connection with Viv’s pub—or, perhaps, with Beck House itself.

Does the truth lie in the past? Or is it closer to home, tied up in the tangled relationships and bitter resentments between the staff at Beck House and Viv’s new pub? Or is it more personal, entwined with secrets hidden by Viv and those closest to her?

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Originally Posted by sufue

A Bitter Feast is the most recent (2019) in the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series by Deborah Crombie. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Nice to see a nice price drop on a most recent title.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H4YS6X2
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-bitter-feast-1

Niiiice! I hadn't even heard that there WAS a new title. Nabbed it.

[Fbone]

A weather featured thriller. Category Five (Donovan Nash #1) by Philip Donlay is $1.99

https://smile.amazon.com/Category-Fi...0952214&sr=8-6

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Warning: Child abduction novel

Close to Home (A DI Adam Fawley Novel Book 1) by Cara Hunter is $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/Close-Home-No...al-text&sr=1-5

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One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski is $2.99

https://www.amazon.com/One-Night-Gon...0952855&sr=1-1

It was the perfect place to disappear...

One sultry summer, Maureen Haddaway arrives in the wealthy town of Opal Beach to start her life anew—to achieve her destiny. There, she finds herself lured by the promise of friendship, love, starry skies, and wild parties. But Maureen’s new life just might be too good to be true, and before the summer is up, she vanishes.

Decades later, when Allison Simpson is offered the opportunity to house-sit in Opal Beach during the off-season, it seems like the perfect chance to begin fresh after a messy divorce. But when she becomes drawn into the mysterious disappearance of a girl thirty years before, Allison realizes the gorgeous homes of Opal Beach hide dark secrets. And the truth of that long-ago summer is not even the most shocking part of all.

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The second in the Detective Daniel Hawthorne series is $2.99, The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz.

https://www.amazon.com/Sentence-Deat...t%2C167&sr=1-1

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Originally Posted by Fbone

The second in the Detective Daniel Hawthorne series is $2.99, The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz.

https://www.amazon.com/Sentence-Deat...t%2C167&sr=1-1

Is that a good series? I've only read Magpie Murders which was pretty clever but also loved Foyle's War.

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Originally Posted by sufue

A Bitter Feast is the most recent (2019) in the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series by Deborah Crombie. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Nice to see a nice price drop on a most recent title.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H4YS6X2
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-bitter-feast-1

Thanks I got this one too

My wishlist is finally kicking in with good sales lately !

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Corpse of St James is the 12th in the Dorothy Martin series by Jeanne M. Dams. It is $1.99 today as part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, not matched (at least as of now) at Kobo US. I read and enjoyed several of the early titles in this series back in DTB days, but haven't kept up with the series recently.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Corpse-James-...dp/B0089PG552/

Spoiler:

Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, have just visited Buckingham Palace, where Alan was awarded the George Cross, when they and a friend, retired Chief Inspector Jonathan Quinn, stumble across the body of a young girl hidden in St James' Park. Wondering what led to the unfortunate girl's demise, Dorothy can't help but get involved in the case when Jonathan calls the next day and admits he knew who the victim was .

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Depraved Heart is the next to most recent (2015) in the Kay Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Per SYKM, it was briefly on sale for $1.99 back in March, and has also been on sale for £1.49 in the UK. So if you want to wait for a better price, it might happen again - YMMV!

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SRXKTBC
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/depraved-heart-1

Spoiler:

Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

Depraved Heart: “Void of social duty and fatally bent on mischief.”

—Mayes v. People, 806 III. 306 (1883)

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It’s clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago.

As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip and then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, worried, and not knowing where to turn. She doesn’t know whom she can tell—not her FBI husband Benton Wesley or her investigative partner Pete Marino. Not even Lucy.

In this new novel, Cornwell launches these unforgettable characters on an intensely psychological odyssey that includes the mysterious death of a Hollywood mogul’s daughter, aircraft wreckage on the bottom of the sea in the Bermuda Triangle, a grisly gift left in the back of a crime scene truck, and videos from the past that threaten to destroy Scarpetta’s entire world and everyone she loves. The diabolical presence behind what unfolds seems obvious—but strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly that’s the message they send when they raid Lucy’s estate and begin building a case that could send her to prison for the rest of her life.

In the latest novel in her bestselling series featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell will captivate readers with the shocking twists, high-wire tension, and cutting-edge forensic detail that she is famous for, proving yet again why she’s the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer.