FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[GA Russell]

Checkpoint Charlie: Stories - Brian Garfield - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006ZE1JQ4

(12 short stories)

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by Apache

I hope they pick someone who will be able to carry it off.
Apache

Matthew Rhys

https://www.southernliving.com/cultu...-mason-tv-show

[Tarana]

Girl Missing (originally published as Peggy Sue Got Married) by Tess Gerritsen $2.99

Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Girl-Missin...s%2C194&sr=1-1
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/gir...3btGtmzU3yDFhQ

Please note: if you prefer B&N, always check that one if you are interested in a book. I have trouble copying and pasting from their site without a mouse. I have to get this laptop fixed-won't recognize a mouse.

Here's another Brit offering from Joffe Publishing. Another author I have not read. Trilogy plus stand-alone $.99 for omnibus.
The Complete Blood in Oxford Series (4 books) by Peter Tickler

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/COMPLETE-MYST...language=en_US

[Dr. Drib]

^ Here's the Amazon link (on the second listing) without the affiliate tag:

https://www.amazon.com/COMPLETE-MYST...al-text&sr=1-1


The first Amazon listing is fine: There's no affiliate tag.

[sufue]

Island of the Mad is the most recent (2018) in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie R. King = at least for now - there is a new one due in June. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK. I've quite enjoyed this series, especially some of the early titles revolving around the Great Game. This title was a finalist for a couple of awards.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B075G49ZM1

Spoiler:

June, 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are enjoying a much-needed quiet summer evening in their home on the Sussex Downs. However, Russell soon receives a desperate telephone call from an old friend. Veronica’s aunt, Lady Vivian Beaconsfield, has disappeared following a supervised outing from Bethlem Royal Hospital. With Russell herself feeling less than balanced, the last thing she wants to deal with is the mad; however, she agrees to investigate.

Lady Vivian had spent most of her adult life in and out of one asylum or another, and seemed at last to be adjusting to confinement at Bedlam. So why did she disappear? And why is there no trace of the nurse who accompanied her?

In their search for the missing women, Russell and Holmes follow the trail from the cold, harsh wards of the hospital through to the ethereal beauty of Venice. Caught up in decadent soirées, the rising tide of fascism and the myth of a haunted madhouse, the pair will discover that there are secrets hidden in the lagoon – and that every Venetian wears a mask…

[sufue]

Another freebie in the Dead End Job series by Elaine Viets.

Clubbed to Death, #7

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079TDZX69
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079TDZX69

From Anthony and Agatha Award-winning author Elaine Viets—the thrilling mystery series about one woman trying to make a living... while other people are making a killing.

Spoiler:

The Superior Club is where Fort Lauderdale’s wealthiest—and snobbiest—come to play. But for Helen Hawthorne, it’s all work and no play. As a customer care clerk, it’s her job to cater to the clients’ every little whim and take care of their every little problem.

But Helen has a very big problem of her own. After an acrimonious reunion with her ex-husband Rob, she ends up belting the bum in the mouth—which invites suspicion when Rob goes ominously missing. And when a club employee and a philandering member are found beaten to death with a golf club, the police assume Helen was the deadly duffer.

With her freedom—and yet another job—on the line, Helen has no choice but to prove that someone else at the high-class club is a low-down killer…

[sufue]

The Secret Place by Tana French is the fifth in the Dublin Murder Squad series. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IOE4JXS
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-secret-place-7

Spoiler:

“An absolutely mesmerizing read. . . . Tana French is simply this: a truly great writer.” —Gillian Flynn

Read the New York Times bestseller by Tana French, author of The Witch Elm and “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post).

A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption: “I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.” Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case—beneath the watchful eye of Holly’s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey. With the clues leading back to Holly’s close-knit group of friends, to their rival clique, and to the tangle of relationships that bound them all to the murdered boy, the private underworld of teenage girls turns out to be more mysterious and more dangerous than the detectives imagined.

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

HBO has announced that it will air a new Perry Mason series. This will be the Perry of the early days, hard-boiled.

Murder & Mayhem has an article about HBO's new Perry Mason show.

https://murder-mayhem.com/perry-mason-hbo

[sufue]

The Hangman's Sonnet is the fourth in Reed Farrel Coleman's continuation of Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone series. I've mentioned before that I like this continuation of the series, even though I often don't like continuations all that much.

It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US, which is a little unusual. More often these titles go on sale in the UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MSAN0SV
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/rob...ngman-s-sonnet

Spoiler:

The stellar new novel in Robert B. Parker's New York Times bestselling series featuring Paradise police chief Jesse Stone.

Jesse Stone, still reeling from the murder of his fiancée by crazed assassin Mr. Peepers, must keep his emotions in check long enough to get through the wedding day of his loyal protégé, Suitcase Simpson. The morning of the wedding, Jesse learns that a gala 75th birthday party is to be held for folk singer Terry Jester. Jester, once the equal of Bob Dylan, has spent the last forty years in seclusion after the mysterious disappearance of the master recording tape of his magnum opus, The Hangman's Sonnet.

That same morning, an elderly Paradise woman dies while her house is being ransacked. What are the thieves looking for? And what's the connection to Terry Jester and the mysterious missing tape? Jesse's investigation is hampered by hostile politicians and a growing trail of blood and bodies, forcing him to solicit the help of mobster Vinnie Morris and a certain Boston area PI named Spenser. While the town fathers pressure him to avoid a PR nightmare, Jesse must connect the cases before the bodies pile up further.

[Fbone]

The Twelfth Card [Lincoln Rhyme Novel] by Jeffery Deaver is $1.99

https://smile.amazon.com/Jeffery-Dea...s%2C158&sr=8-1

[Fbone]

Broken (Will Trent Book 4) by Karin Slaughter is $2.99

https://smile.amazon.com/Broken-Nove...9235932&sr=1-1

[Fbone]

Kill the Messenger by Tami Hoag is $1.99

https://smile.amazon.com/Kill-Messen...t%2C181&sr=1-1

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

HBO has announced that it will air a new Perry Mason series. This will be the Perry of the early days, hard-boiled.

The story of an egg.

[sufue]

And one more of these "new" versions of the old Perry Mason titles has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle/Kobo US (coupon/VIPable). The others appear to have gone back up, so not staying on sale very long - grab it if you want it.

The Case of the Lonely Heiress, about 1/3 of the way through the series

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084TLTM17/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...nely-heiress-1

Spoiler:

A fight over a rich man’s will turns deadly in this murder mystery by the “kingpin among the mystery writers” from the series that inspired the HBO show (The New York Times).

Marilyn Marlow has inherited a good deal of money from her mother. But the money originated with another will—that of her mother’s wealthy employer. Now his relatives are contesting the will, and it’s Rose Keeling, the key witness to its signing, whose mind they'll need to sway.

When Rose is murdered, sleuthing lawyer Perry Mason must navigate a twisted case involving a personal ad that casts a cloud of suspicion over his client, Miss Marlow, in this mystery in Edgar Award–winning author Erle Stanley Gardner’s classic, long-running series, which has sold three hundred million copies and serves as the inspiration for the HBO show starring Matthew Rhys and Tatiana Maslany.

[sufue]

Signed, Picpus, apa To Any Lengths, apa Maigret and the Fortuneteller is the 23rd (more or less, depending on how you count) in the Maigret series by Georges Simenon. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. These don't go on sale very often in the US, and there are so very many of them, so you probably should grab it if you think you might want it.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010N18K4S
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/signed-picpus-1

Spoiler:

Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice in this page-turning mystery

“Mechanically, he had put his pince-nez down on the blotter and looked at it there with his large, short-sighted eyes. It is at that moment that the strange thing happens. One of the lenses, acting as a mirror, reflected the criss-cross, hatched ink marks which had dried on the blotter and he could just make out a couple of words.”

When a fortune-teller is found murdered in her apartment, Maigret must find out not only who commited the crime, but why it was predicted in a note found earlier—signed by the unknown Picpus.