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[gunbad]

For Alistair Maclean fans...$0.99 at AmazonUS

Where Eagles Dare

[Mort1997]

Free on Amazon UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Think...F7NXQ4B4CNC262

Spoiler:

The first Rowland Sinclair mystery

Shortlisted for Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

It’s the early 1930s and a great Depression is engulfing the world, spawning misery and discontent. In Australia, tensions are mounting as the Far Right makes inroads which threaten national stability.

Wealthy Australian artist Rowland Sinclair enjoys a comfortably bohemian existence which he shares with old allies – a poet, a fellow painter and a brazen sculptress. But their idyll is shattered when a vicious murder exposes a treacherous conspiracy… one which Rowland and his redoubtable colleagues find themselves obliged to investigate.

[sufue]

A couple years on, this box set has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US again. It hasn't dropped at Kobo US, at least as of now. Links below are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

The Leigh Koslow Mystery Series: Books One, Two, and Three: Boxed Set by Edie Claire is just what it sounds like (well, aside from not actually being in a box ) - an omnibus of the first three titles in the series. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (couponable/VIPable).

Titles are:

• Never Buried
• Never Sorry
• Never Preach Past Noon

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Leigh-Koslow-...dp/B00O542X5M/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...-two-and-three


Also keep in mind that the first title, Never Buried, is a perma-freebie, so you're probably just getting two titles you might need in this omnibus.

[sufue]

The Paper Bark Tree Mystery is the third in the Chen Su Lin series by Ovidia Yu. $3.99 is not a super-great sale price, but it's the most recent title (2019) for a series/author I like a lot, soooooo.....

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JKWPFN5
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...k-tree-mystery

Spoiler:

Su Lin is doing her dream job: assistant at Singapore's brand new detective agency. Until Bald Bernie decides a 'local girl' can't be trusted with private investigations, and replaces her with a new secretary - pretty, privileged, and white. So Su Lin's not the only person finding it hard to mourn Bernie after he's found dead in the filing room. And when her best friend's dad is accused, she gets up to some sleuthing work of her own in a bid to clear his name.

Su Lin finds out that Bernie may have been working undercover, trading stolen diamonds for explosives from enemy troops. Was he really the upright English citizen he claimed to be?

Meanwhile, a famous assassin commits his worst crime yet, and disappears into thin air. Rumours spread that he may be dangerously close to home.

Beneath the stifling, cloudless Singaporean summer, earthquakes of chaos and political unrest are breaking out. When a tragic loss shakes Su Lin's personal world to its core, she becomes determined to find the truth. But in dark, hate-filled times, truth has a price - and Su Lin must decide how much she's willing to pay for it.

[JSWolf]

The first book in the Eve Duncan series The Face of Deception by Iris Johansen is now available for $2.99 from Kobo and Amazon.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-face-of-deception
https://www.amazon.com/Face-Deceptio.../dp/B000FBJAVO

An unidentified skull...

A trail of terrifying secrets...

And a woman whose talented hands could reveal the shocking truth...

As a forensic sculptor, Eve Duncan helps identify the dead from their skulls. Her own daughter murdered and her body never found, the job is Eve's way of coming to terms with her personal nightmare. But more terror lies ahead when she accepts work from billionaire John Logan. Beneath her gifted hands a face emerges from the skull he has given her to reconstruct—a face no one was ever meant to see. Now Eve is trapped in a frightening web of murder and deceit. Powerful enemies are determined to cover up the truth, and they will make certain that truth goes to the grave...even if Eve gets buried with it.

[GA Russell]

Eight Aaron Elkins books going for $1.99 today.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J84KSVU

[sufue]

Unto Us a Son Is Given is the 28th and most recent (for a couple of weeks, until the next one comes out in early March) in Donna Leon's excellent IMO Commissario Guido Brunetti series. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable). Of course this price drop happened only a few days after my loooong hold at my library finally ended and I got to read it .

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Unto-Given-Gu...dp/B07HB8Q621/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/unt...son-is-given-5

Spoiler:

Guido Brunetti is urged by his father-in-law to investigate—and preferably intervene in—the seemingly innocent plan of the elderly Gonzalo Rodríguez de Tejeda to adopt a much younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws, this man would then be heir to Gonzalo’s entire fortune, a prospect Gonzalo’s friends find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why the old man, a close family friend, can’t be allowed his pleasure in peace.

And yet, what seems innocent on the Venetian surface can cause tsunamis below. Gonzalo unexpectedly drops dead on the street, and one of his friends—who just arrived in Venice for the memorial service—is strangled in her hotel room. Now with an urgent case to solve, Brunetti reluctantly untangles the long-hidden mystery in Gonzalo’s life that has ultimately led to murder . . . a resolution that brings him more pain than satisfaction.

[sufue]

Smallbone Deceased is the fourth in the Inspector Hazelrigg series by Michael Gilbert. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Smallbone-Dec...dp/B07S45PSSR/

Spoiler:

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

"A first-rate job"—New York Times
"A classic of the genre"—Guardian

Horniman, Birley and Craine is a highly respected legal firm with clients drawn from the highest in the land. When a deed box in the office is opened to reveal a corpse, the threat of scandal promises to wreak havoc on the firm's reputation—especially as the murder looks like an inside job. The partners and staff of the firm keep a watchful and suspicious eye on their colleagues, as Inspector Hazlerigg sets out to solve the mystery of who Mr. Smallbone was—and why he had to die.

Written with style, pace, and wit, this is a masterpiece by one of the finest writers of traditional British crime novels since the Second World War.

[sufue]

On the way to other things, I noticed The Colombian Mule, which is the first in the Alligator series by Massimo Carlotto. This isn't usually my sort of thing, but it looked interesting for some reason, and it's on sale at $1.99, so here's a post. (I actually think it caught my eye because the cover is a similar yellow to the ebook covers of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Pepe Carvalho series, which I do like a lot...go figure...)

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079MG54MF
Kobo US (VIP/couponable): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-colombian-mule-5

Spoiler:

“Think The Sopranos meets Goodfellas—without the Americanized gloss . . . [A] not-for-the-faint-hearted novel by an Italian master” (Reading Matters).

In The Colombian Mule, the author called “the reigning king of Mediterranean noir” (The Boston Phoenix) and “the best living Italian crime writer” (Il Manifesto) brings to riveting life the story of Arías Cuevas, who sets in motion a chain of bloody events when police catch him trying to carry a shipment of La Tía’s cocaine into Italy. The intended recipient of the coke appears to have been art smuggler Nazzareno Corradi. But Corradi has been set up. He hires a PI known as “the Alligator” to get him out of the mess he’s in. Meanwhile, La Tía, a notoriously ruthless figure in the Colombian drug trade, is determined to move her operation to Italy, where cocaine has become all the rage among the professional classes. There’s only one thing standing in her way: the Alligator.

The Alligator, an ex-con-turned-investigator, and his two companions, former underworld heavy Beniamino Rossini and Max the Memory, are among Massimo Carlotto’s most vivid noir creations. Together, the three men will wade deep into a criminal world of few scruples, testing their own strict and specific moral code along the way.

[sufue]

The US Kindle Daily Deal today includes a double volume with the 13th/14th or 14th/15th titles (depending on whether you count a volume of short stories) in Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford series for $1.99. It's matched (and coupon/VIPable) at Kobo US. Titles are The Veiled One and An Unkindness of Ravens.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Two-Inspector...dp/B077SW3B18/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/two...ford-mysteries

Spoiler:

London’s Inspector Wexford has two cases to solve—a murdered wife and a missing husband—in this double dose of a “masterful series” (Los Angeles Times).

Now in one volume, two novels in “one of the best-written detective series in the genre’s history,” from a New York Times–bestselling and three-time Edgar Award–winning author (The Washington Post).

The Veiled One: “Why on earth?” wonders London’s chief inspector Reginald Wexford when a sixtyish housewife is found garroted in a shopping mall garage, her body concealed under a velvet shroud. Before he can find the answer, he’s nearly killed himself—by a politically motivated car bombing targeting his activist daughter. With the inspector in the hospital, the case falls to his partner, Mike Burden. But when a strange mother and son are suspected, Burdon’s trail leads him down a very twisted road.

An Unkindness of Ravens: When a neighbor’s husband vanishes, Chief Inspector Wexford suspects the cad most likely ran off with one of his girlfriends. However, there are a few nagging concerns, like the man’s suspicious letter of resignation and his abandoned car. And is it just a fluke that his disappearance coincides with a rash of stabbings—all straight through the heart, all with male victims? Behind the seemingly placid domesticity of Wexford’s Sussex neighbors, there’s a growing web of tangling secrets, double lives, and triple-crosses. An Edgar Award finalist, this is a “mystery of the highest order” (The New Yorker).

[GA Russell]

The Long Divorce - Edmund Crispin - 99 cents
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Divorce-...dp/B077PRGLVD/

[Fbone]

The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan Universe Book 3) by Tom Clancy is $1.99. The lowest price I can remember for this.

https://smile.amazon.com/Cardinal-Kr...1887180&sr=1-1

[sufue]

Why Kill the Innocent is the 13th in the Sebastian St. Cyr series by C. S. Harris. It has dropped to £1.49 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07466RDB5

Spoiler:

A brutal murder draws nobleman Sebastian St. Cyr into the tangled web of the British royal court in this gripping historical mystery from the national bestselling author of Where the Dead Lie.

London, 1814. As a cruel winter holds the city in its icy grip, the bloody body of a beautiful young musician is found half-buried in a snowdrift. Jane Ambrose's ties to Princess Charlotte, the only child of the Prince Regent and heir presumptive to the throne, panic the palace, which moves quickly to shut down any investigation into the death of the talented pianist. But Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and his wife Hero refuse to allow Jane's murderer to escape justice.

Untangling the secrets of Jane's world leads Sebastian into a maze of dangerous treachery where each player has his or her own unsavory agenda and no one can be trusted. As the Thames freezes over and the people of London pour onto the ice for a Frost Fair, Sebastian and Hero find their investigation circling back to the palace and building to a chilling crescendo of deceit and death . . .

[sufue]

A Kind of Prisoner is the next-to-last (1954) in the Department Z series by John Creasey. It has dropped to $0.99/£0.99 at Kindle US/UK respectively. It's a Kindle Countdown deal good for about 2 1/2 more days, give or take a time zone or eight...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072XWZ7GN
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072XWZ7GN

Spoiler:

Department Z has been infiltrated by a double agent and everyone is suspicious.

As once loyal friends begin to turn on each other, Agent Craigie is desperate to find the super-spies responsible. Is there an enemy within their walls? Or was Ryall, the Department man they had captured, being forced to reveal his knowledge whilst held as "a kind of prisoner"?

Time is running out for Agent Craigie if he wants to save what's left of Department Z.

A Kind of Prisoner is the 27th novel in John Creasey's Department Z series.

[sufue]

Death Below Stairs is the first in the Kat Holloway/Below Stairs series by Jennifer Ashley (although there's a novella floating around in this series that might be a prequel ????). It has dropped from its usual price up around $10 to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

I've not read any of the titles in this series (see $10 above ), but I've read and enjoyed almost all of the titles in Ashley's Captain Lacey series.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y4RCLQX
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/death-below-stairs

Spoiler:

Victorian class lines are crossed when cook Kat Holloway is drawn into a murder that reaches all the way to the throne.

Highly sought-after young cook Kat Holloway takes a position in a Mayfair mansion and soon finds herself immersed in the odd household of Lord Rankin. Kat is unbothered by the family’s eccentricities as long as they stay away from her kitchen, but trouble finds its way below stairs when her young Irish assistant is murdered.

Intent on discovering who killed the helpless kitchen maid, Kat turns to the ever-capable Daniel McAdam, who is certainly much more than the charming delivery man he pretends to be. Along with the assistance of Lord Rankin’s unconventional sister-in-law and a mathematical genius, Kat and Daniel discover that the household murder was the barest tip of a plot rife with danger and treason—one that’s a threat to Queen Victoria herself.