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[Fbone]

The Deeds of the Disturber (The Amelia Peabody Murder Mysteries Book 5) by Elizabeth Peters is 99 cents.

https://smile.amazon.com/Disturber-A...t%2C282&sr=1-1

[Kieran Seymour]

Amazon UK has got a Big Deal on James Bond novels today - 99p each.

Trigger Mortis - Anthony Horowitz
Carte Blanche - Jeffery Deaver
For Special Services - John Gardner
Icebreaker - John Gardner
Nobody Lives Forever - John Gardner
Goldeneye - John Gardner

[sufue]

Three early titles in the Joe Gunter series by Archer Mayor are $0.99 each at Kindle US. I quite like this police procedural series. These used to go on sale a lot, back several years ago, but I haven't seen them on sale at $0.99 for a while, so here's a post...

The Skeleton’s Knee, #4: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C3DA4WG

Fruits of the Poisonous Tree, #5: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C3DHDF2

The Dark Root, #6: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C3LLRFG

ADD: These are Countdown deals, ending in less than a day, so act fast if you want them...

[Tarana]

I have not read this, but have heard a lot of positive stuff about it. The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura for $1.99. It's a suspense novel.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gun-Fuminori-...kbubemail18-20
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...CMjw2CYUFR3x3A
Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the...dpid=tekz25v83

[sufue]

The Betel Nut Tree Mystery is the second in Ovidia Yu's SuLin historical mystery series. I've quite liked Yu's Aunty Lee series, but I like the SuLin series a bit more - it's a little less cozy, and the background is (to me) more interesting. (Still cozy, just less cozy...)

And each series actually does have a little bit of seriousness in them too.

Anyway, Betel Nut is $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0791MNW1R
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...tree-mystery-1

Spoiler:

'Great protagonist, great setting - this is a delightful book' Morning Star

The second novel in Ovidia Yu's delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, featuring amateur sleuth Su Lin.

What we came to think of as the betel nut affair began in the middle of a tropical thunderstorm in December 1937 . . .

Singapore is agog with the news of King Edward VIII's abdication to marry American heiress Wallis Simpson. Chen Su Lin, now Chief Inspector Le Froy's secretarial assistant in Singapore's newly formed detective unit, still dreams of becoming a journalist and hopes to cover the story when the Hon Victor Glossop announces he is marrying an American widow of his own, Mrs Nicole Covington, in the Colony. But things go horribly wrong when Victor Glossop is found dead, his body covered in bizarre symbols and soaked in betel nut juice.

The beautiful, highly-strung Nicole claims it's her fault he's dead . . . just like the others. And when investigations into her past reveal a dead lover, as well as a husband, the case against her appears to be stacking up. Begrudgingly on Le Froy's part, Su Lin agrees to chaperon Nicole at the Farquhar Hotel, intending to get the truth out of her somehow. But as she uncovers secrets and further deaths occur, Su Lin realises she may not be able to save Nicole's life - or even her own.

'Charming and fascinating with great authentic feel. This book is exactly why I love historical novels' Rhys Bowen

'I really enjoyed this wonderful gem of a book. The diversity and rich history portrayed in the book are what make The Frangipani Tree Mystery a brilliant read. The fact that it's a fusion of crime and historical fiction adds brownie points to the package!' Bookloves Reviews

[sufue]

Two omnibuses in Gail Bowen's Joanne Kilbourn series have gone on sale in the US at Kindle and Kobo US - the first one is a pretty good deal, and the second one is quite a good deal, assuming you don't need any of them. I'm quite fond of this series, so sadly, I already have a lot of these.

The Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries 3-Book Bundle Volume 2 contains: A Colder Kind of Death (which won the 1995 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel), A Killing Spring, and Verdict in Blood. It is $7.99.
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004JKM6CM
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...undle-volume-2

The Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries 6-Book Bundle Volume 3 contains: The Last Good Day, The Endless Knot, The Brutal Heart, The Nesting Dolls, Kaleidoscope, and The Gifted. It is $8.99, which works out to only $1.50 per book.
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MSRYONW
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...undle-volume-3

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Tarana

I have not read this, but have heard a lot of positive stuff about it. The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura for $1.99. It's a suspense novel.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gun-Fuminori-...kbubemail18-20
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...CMjw2CYUFR3x3A
Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the...dpid=tekz25v83

Thanks for that. Japanese crime stories are fascinating.

[GA Russell]

Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse (#58) - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Maigret-Good-...dp/B07FC4467J/

[sufue]

Now $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Links below are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

$4.99 is not a great sale price for series fiction, but when it's for the latest (2019) in the Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke, which has been sitting at $14.99, it's still quite a price drop. So, here's the info on The New Iberia Blues...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GNTW4X5/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-new-iberia-blues-2

This is part of the US Kindle Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US, so the price drop likely will disappear tomorrow...

[sufue]

The Murder of Mary Russell is the 14th in Laurie R. King's Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. I've very much enjoyed many of the titles in this series, especially the "Great Game" ones.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UEL0KV4
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...f-mary-russell

Spoiler:

Mary Russell is used to dark secrets—her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond.

And what of the other person to whom Mary Russell has opened her heart: the couple’s longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson? Russell’s faith and affection are suddenly shattered when a man arrives on the doorstep claiming to be Mrs. Hudson’s son.

What Samuel Hudson tells Russell cannot possibly be true, yet she believes him—as surely as she believes the threat of the gun in his hand. In a devastating instant, everything changes. And when the scene is discovered—a pool of blood on the floor, the smell of gunpowder in the air—the most shocking revelation of all is that the grim clues point directly to Clara Hudson.

Or rather to Clarissa, the woman she was before Baker Street.

The key to Russell’s sacrifice lies in Mrs. Hudson’s past. To uncover the truth, a frantic Sherlock Holmes must put aside his anguish and push deep into his housekeeper’s secrets—to a time before her disguise was assumed, before her crimes were buried away.

There is death here, and murder, and trust betrayed.

And nothing will ever be the same.

[sufue]

Three nice price drops on historical titles, all from different times...

No More Dying is the 9th in the Verity Browne/Lord Edward Corinth series by David Roberts, $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OGV0H7K
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/no-more-dying-5

The Tolls of Death is the 17th in the Knights Templar series by Michael Jecks, also $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IRQIWYA
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...mysteries-17-1

The Devil in the Marshalsea, first in the Tom Hawkins series by Antonia Hodgson, per SYKM, winner of the 2014 Historical Dagger Award, $2.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E78IEKO
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...e-marshalsea-1

[sufue]

Faceless Killers is the first in the Kurt Wallander series by Henning Mankell. It is a US Kindle Daily Deal today at $1.99, matched (and coupon/VIPable) at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Faceless-Kill...dp/B005MYTEJC/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/faceless-killers-6

Spoiler:

A #1 international bestseller: This “exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth” launched the acclaimed Wallander Mysteries and BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh (Los Angeles Times).

Early one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer’s eyes. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: “foreign.”

In charge of the investigation is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local detective whose personal life is in a shambles. His family is falling apart, he’s gaining weight, and he drinks too much and sleeps too little. Tenacious and levelheaded in his sleuthing, he and his colleagues must contend with a wave of violent xenophobia as they search for the killers.

Winner of the Sweden’s Best Mystery Award and the first installment in the series that inspired the PBS program Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh, Faceless Killers is a razor-sharp, stylishly dark police procedural with searing social commentary that reaches beyond its genre to produce “a superior novel—and a harbinger of great things to come” (Booklist).

[sufue]

I've read and enjoyed the first three books in Margaret Doody's Aristotle Detective historical mystery series in DTB. They are published by the University of Chicago press, and the e-books go on sale from time to time. Sadly, the last two books in the series, which I did not read in DTB, since they were published by a different publisher, and I never saw them at the time, do not seem to have ebook versions. Sigh!

In any case, the third title in the series, Aristotle and the Secrets of Life, is now on sale for $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (VIP/couponable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Aristotle-Sec...dp/022613217X/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ari...rets-of-life-1

Spoiler:

Murder and mayhem may seem like unreasonable company for Aristotle, one of the founding minds of Western philosophy. But in the skilled hands of Margaret Doody, the pairing could not be more logical. With her Aristotle Detective novels, Margaret Doody brings a Holmesian hero to the bloodied streets of ancient Greece, trading the pipe and deerstalker of Sherlock for the woolen chiton and sandals of Aristotle. Replete with suspense, historical detail, and humor, and complemented by an ever-growing cast of characters and vivid descriptions of the ancient world, Doody’s mysteries are as much lively takes on the figures and forms of the classics as they are classic whodunits in their own right.

With Aristotle and the Secrets of Life, tensions between the Athenians and the Makedonians—followers of another of Aristotle’s former students, Alexander the Great—draw our heroes across the Aegean Sea. Even as Aristotle and Stephanos escape from pirates, uncover conspiracy, and face the horrors of war, Aristotle finds time to discuss his studies of the natural world in this gripping tale of their quest into darkness.

[sufue]

Even though the title sounds kind of horror-ish, It Walks by Night is the first in John Dickson Carr's Henri Bencolin series. I'm not a huge John Dickson Carr fan, but this is set in Paris, and I tend to enjoy mysteries set in France, even if just due to the setting (and daydreaming about French food and wine), so I'm tempted to give this a try. Anyway, it's $1.99 right now at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083QP297X
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/it-walks-by-night

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

Spoiler:

With an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the Dickson Carr short story "The Shadow of the Goat"

We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital.

In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is known to have visited a plastic surgeon. His whereabouts remain a mystery, though with his former wife poised to marry another, Bencolin predicts his return.

Sure enough, the Inspector's worst suspicions are realized when the beheaded body of the new suitor is discovered in a locked room of the salon, with no apparent exit. Bencolin sets off into the Parisian night to unravel the dumbfounding mystery and track down the sadistic killer.

[sufue]

Free again at Kindle US, and also Kindle UK.

Link below is still good for US.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guilt-Witho...dp/B01M0V8FBZ/

Originally Posted by sufue

Guilt Without Proof is the fourth in the C.I.D. Room series by Roderic Jeffries. Per SYKM, Jeffries wrote this series using the pen name, Peter Alding. Guilt is free right now at Kindle US.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Guilt-Without...dp/B01M0V8FBZ/