FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

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Per Wikipedia, Polish author Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature two months after the US release of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Now Drive is on sale at Kindle and Kobo US for $1.99. This looks like a very different and intriguing sort of mystery/thriller novel. Oh yeah, and in her spare time, Tokarczuk also won a Man Booker prize, for a different book.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KNV4RC3/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07KNV4RC3/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dri...-of-the-dead-2

Spoiler:

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

"A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune

"Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .

A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?

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A nice holiday-themed present...

Now free at Kindle and Kobo US. Links below are still good for Kindle.

Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/blue-christmas-31

Originally Posted by sufue

Blue Christmas is the 6th and latest in the Lord & Lady Hetheridge series by Emma Jameson. I've read the first five books in this series and enjoyed them all, so I'm happy to see this one go on sale at Kindle US for $1.99.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0833PKN8B
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0833PKN8B

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Although it is fairly common to see titles in this series go on sale, it's not common to see them go free. And even less common to see one free at Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B019WQ3JIM

Originally Posted by sufue

The Sniper's Wife is the 13th in Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther series, a police procedural series that I quite enjoy. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001N2ZWYI
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-sniper-s-wife



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A Stroke of Malice is the eighth and most recent (2020) in the Lady Darby series by Anna Lee Huber. It has dropped to $2.99/£1.99 in the US/UK respectively. I got a chance to read an ARC of this a while back, and enjoyed it.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V111W1F
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07V111W1F
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-stroke-of-malice
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07V111W1F
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07V111W1F

Spoiler:

Lady Kiera Darby and her husband Sebastian Gage are looking forward to celebrating with new friends at an exciting yearly soiree, but they soon learn that murder never takes a holiday in the latest riveting installment in this national bestselling series.

January 1832. After enjoying a delightful few weeks with her family, expectant mother Kiera and Sebastian Gage have been invited to the Duchess of Bowmontʼs Twelfth Night party in Traquair, Scotland. Though she normally avoids such fashionable, rambunctious events, Kiera is ready to join in the festive merrymaking. But upon their arrival at the opulent estate, it becomes obvious that all is not merry in their hostess’s home. The family appears to be under a great strain, and someone seems determined to cause mayhem among the guests with a series of forged notes.

Matters swiftly turn from irksome to downright deadly when the partygoers stumble upon a decomposing body in the castleʼs crypt. The corpse is thought to be the duchessʼs son-in-law who had purportedly traveled to Paris more than a month earlier. It is evident the man met with foul play, and Kiera and Gage soon realize that a ruthless murderer walks among them—and may well be a member of the duchessʼs own family. And when the investigation takes a treacherous turn, Kiera discovers just how deep the killer is willing to dig to keep their secrets from ever seeing the light of day.

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A Dead Question is the second (or third, if you count a book containing two novellas, as SYKM does) in the Honey Laird series by Gerald Hammond. It is free right now at Kindle US and UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q6KBDM3
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Q6KBDM3

Spoiler:

Two weeks away from giving birth, Detective Inspector Honey Laird is at a point when bending down is becoming increasingly difficult, and straightening up again almost impossible, when her boss calls upon her to investigate Dr McGordon... her next door neighbour.

On the outside, Dr McGordon appears to be the perfect doctor. He gives services free in poor areas, provides care in underdeveloped countries, and even brings patients to Britain (at his own expense) for special treatments. But when officers knock on his door looking for witnesses to an accident, Dr McGordon, panicky and pale, reveals a guilty conscience.

Aware that he’s done something wrong but unsure of what, Honey – along with the help of a younger officer, her overprotective housekeeper, and her faithful Labrador – dives into the case.

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A Pretty Deceit is the fourth and most recent (2020) in the Verity Kent Mystery series by Anna Lee Huber. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US right now, not at Kobo US, at least as of now. I also noticed a few other titles by Huber on sale, but I'm slammed for time today and can't list them all. If you like this author and have a title or two you're looking for, go take a look at Kindle US...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082WRDB98/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B082WRDB98/

Spoiler:

In the aftermath of the Great War, the line between friend and foe may be hard to discern, even for indomitable former Secret Service agent Verity Kent, in award-winning author Anna Lee Huber’s thrilling mystery series.

Peacetime has brought little respite for Verity Kent. Intrigue still abounds, even within her own family. As a favor to her father, Verity agrees to visit his sister in Wiltshire. Her once prosperous aunt has fallen on difficult times and is considering selling their estate. But there are strange goings-on at the manor, including missing servants, possible heirloom forgeries, and suspicious rumors—all leading to the discovery of a dead body on the grounds.

While Verity and her husband, Sidney, investigate this new mystery, they are also on the trail of an old adversary—the shadowy and lethal Lord Ardmore. At every turn, the suspected traitor seems to be one step ahead of them. And even when their dear friend Max, the Earl of Ryde, stumbles upon a code hidden among his late father’s effects that may reveal the truth about Ardmore, Verity wonders if they are really the hunters—or the hunted . . .

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The first title in this series, just named Aristotle Detective, is on sale right now for $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I1D9XNI
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I1D9XNI
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/aristotle-detective-2

Originally Posted by 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

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An Incomplete Revenge, fifth in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear, is on sale right now for $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Incomplete-Re...dp/B000UZQIVK/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/Incomplete-...dp/B000UZQIVK/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/an-incomplete-revenge

Spoiler:

In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community

With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal element at work. As Maisie discovers, the villagers are bitterly prejudiced against outsiders who flock to Kent at harvest time—even more troubling, they seem possessed by the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid. Maisie grows increasingly suspicious of a peculiar secrecy that shrouds the village, and ultimately she must draw on all her finely honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases.

Rich with Jacqueline Winspear's trademark period detail, this installment of the bestselling series, An Incomplete Revenge, is gripping, atmospheric, and utterly enthralling.

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The Buzzard Table is the 18th in the awesome IMO Deborah Knott series by Margaret Maron. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0076DF7DO
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0076DF7DO
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-buzzard-table

Spoiler:

New York Times bestselling author Margaret Maron returns with a thrilling new Deborah Knott mystery . . .

The Buzzard Table

Judge Deborah Knott and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, are back home in Colleton County amid family and old friends. But the winter winds have blown in several new faces as well. Lt. Sigrid Harald and her mother, Anne, a well-known photographer, are down from New York to visit Mrs. Lattimore, Anne's dying mother. When the group gathers for dinner at Mrs. Lattimore's Victorian home, they meet the enigmatic Martin Crawford, an ornithologist researching a book on Southern vultures. He's also Mrs. Lattimore's long-lost nephew. With her health in decline, Mrs. Lattimore wants to make amends with her family-a desire Deborah can understand, as she, too, works to strengthen her relationship with her young stepson, Cal.

Anne is charmed by her mysterious cousin, but she cannot shake the feeling that there is something familiar about Martin . . . something he doesn't want her or anyone else to discover. When a string of suspicious murders sets Colleton County on edge, Deborah, Dwight, and Sigrid once again work together to catch a killer, uncovering long-buried family secrets along the way.

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The Breakers is the 34th (I'm trusting the web blurb, I didn't count on SYKM ) in the awesome IMO and long-running Sharon McCone series by Marcia Muller. It's also the most recent, published in 2018. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US, and £0.99 at Kindle UK - which works out to US $1.32 or so, if you are able to travel and don't have any credit card fees.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0785MR8ZN
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0785MR8ZN
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-breakers-6
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breakers-Sh...dp/B077XWR3V6/
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Breakers-...dp/B077XWR3V6/

Spoiler:

New York Times bestselling author Marcia Muller is at her page-turning best in The Breakers, as she digs into a particularly disturbing corner of San Francisco's history--one that Sharon McCone may not escape alive.

Sharon gets a request from her former neighbors the Curleys. Their usually dependable daughter, Chelle, hasn't answered their calls in over a week. Would Sharon check on her?

Chelle, a house flipper, has been living at her latest rehab project: a Prohibition-era nightclub known as the Breakers, formerly a favored watering hole for San Francisco's elite, now converted into a run-down apartment building. There's something sinister about the quirky space, and Sharon quickly discovers why. Lurking in a secret room between two floors is a ghastly art gallery: photos and drawings of mass murderers, long ago and recent. Jack the Ripper. The Zodiac and Zebra killers. Charles Manson. What, an alarmed Sharon wonders, was Chelle doing in this chamber of horrors?

And as Sharon begins to suspect that the ghoulish collage may be more than just a leftover relic of the Breakers' checkered history, her search for Chelle becomes a desperate race against the clock before a killer strikes again.

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Amazon and Kobo

Old Bones - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (Bill Slider series #19) $2.46

Shadow Play - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (Bill Slider series #20) $1.88 - Amazon $2.46 - Kobo

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An omnibus of three of Raymond Chandler's Marlowe books is available at Amazon UK today for just £1.99.

The Big Sleep and other novels

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The Godfather by Mario Puzo is $1.99 at Amazon US.

Mario Puzo’s classic saga of an American crime family that became a global phenomenon—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness. This unforgettable saga of crime and corruption, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test of time, as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld.

A #1 New York Times bestseller in 1969, Mario Puzo’s epic was turned into the incomparable film of the same name, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is the original classic that has been often imitated, but never matched. A tale of family and society, law and order, obedience and rebellion, it reveals the dark passions of human nature played out against a backdrop of the American dream.

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Now £0.99 at Kindle UK...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shooting-Ch...dp/B07SZL5NNK/
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Shooting-...dp/B07SZL5NNK/

Originally Posted by disconnected

The Shooting at Chateau Rock (the latest Bruno, Chief of Police mystery by Martin Walker) is 2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Chat...al-text&sr=1-2
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...t-chateau-rock

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Love and Death Among the Cheetahs (A Royal Spyness Mystery Book 13) by Rhys Bowen is 1.99

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Among-C...al-text&sr=1-1