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I think this is the first Travis McGee title I've noticed go on sale for a second time, at least since I started watching for these a few years ago. The Scarlet Ruse is now on sale for $1.99, so if you didn't buy at $2.99, now you have another chance, at a better price.

Links below are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

Some random price drops in the US, most to $1.99 unless otherwise indicated...

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The Scarlet Ruse is the 14th in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. It's on sale for $2.99. Travis McGee titles usually run $10 and up in the US (insane for backlist), so nice to see one on sale.
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Scarlet-Ruse-...dp/B008WOUF9C/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-scarlet-ruse

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Five latish titles in the Henry & Emmy Tibbett series by Patricia Moyes are on sale for $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US, where they are discountable...

Black Widower, #12
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07L8QSPVX
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/black-widower-1

The Coconut Killings, #13
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q712FN5
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-coconut-killings-1

Who Is Simon Warwick?, #14
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QDV6S8N
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/who-is-simon-warwick-1

Angel Death, #15
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XYH7XDL
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/angel-death-1

A Six Letter Word for Death, #16
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XYG3KLB
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-s...rd-for-death-1

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A few other random interesting (to me, at least) price drops...

The Herring-Seller's Apprentice, Ethelred and Elsie #1, by by L.C. Tyler, $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018HQF5KI
Kobo US (discountable): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...s-apprentice-4

Murder at Madingley Grange, non-series by Caroline Graham, $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PWKOBZI
Kobo US (discountable): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mur...ngley-grange-3

Point of Origin, Kay Scarpetta #9, by Patricia Cornwell, $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OIZV16
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/point-of-origin-1

Heartstone, Matthew Shardlake #5, by C. J. Sansom, $0.99
Info and Kindle US link in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3962270
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/heartstone-5

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The Case Is Closed By Patricia Wentworth $.99 Historical mystery (Miss Silver series) Amazon, Kobo and B&N.

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Murdering Americans is the 11th in the Robert Amiss/Jack Troutback series by Ruth Dudley Edwards. I've quite liked this series, except for the last two (of which this sadly is one), in which I felt Edwards pushed her politics (with which I mostly disagree) more to the forefront. Although I thought the earlier titles were excellent (see my previous post here), and I think this one is merely good, I'm going to post it anyway, since it has dropped to $3.43 at Kindle US, and the titles in this series usually sit at $6.49 and up. Just be warned that there's more political attitude in this one - and, of course, YMMV and you might agree with her politics anyway .

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VQKKPPQ
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07VQKKPPQ

Spoiler:

""Academia (n.): a profession filled with bad food, knee-jerk liberalism, and murder... Being a member of the House of Lords and Mistress of St Marthas College in Cambridge might seem enough to keep anyone busy, but Baroness (Jack) Troutbeck likes new challenges. When a combination of weddings, work, and spookery deprives her of five of her closest allies, she leaps at an invitation to become a Distinguished Visiting Professor on an American campus. With her head full of romantic fantasies inspired by 1950s Hollywood, and accompanied by Horace, her loquacious and disconcerting parrot, this intellectually-rigorous right-winger sets off from England blissfully unaware that academia in the United States is dominated by knee-jerk liberalism, contempt for Western civilization, and the institutionalisation of a form of insane political-correctness. Will the bonne viveuse Baroness Troutbeck be able to cope with the culinary and vinous desert that is New Paddington, Indiana? Can this insensitive and tactless human battering-ram defeat the thought-police who run Freeman State University like a gulag? Does she believe the late Provost was murdered? If so, what should she do about it? And will she manage to persuade Robert Amiss who describes himself bitterly as Watson to her Holmes and Goodwin to her Nero Wolfe to abandon his honeymoon and fly to her side?

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Now $2.99 in the US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005F4AUZ6
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B005F4AUZ6
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/trouble-in-paradise-7

Originally Posted by sufue

Trouble in Paradise is the 2nd in the Jesse Stone series by Robert B. Parker. It has dropped to £0.99 as part of Kindle UK's Escape with Kindle weekend sale good through May 7.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trouble-Par...dp/B009T99QNU/

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The Ragman's Memory is the seventh in the really solid IMO Joe Gunther police procedural series by Archer Mayor. It is a US Kindle countdown at $0.99 for about one more day.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C3DNPJK
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00C3DNPJK

Spoiler:

A small girl brings Joe Gunther a bird’s nest—made partially of human hair. In the search to put a body, and an identity, to the hair’s owner, Joe comes upon an unexplained death, a grisly murder, and a sudden disappearance. All seem to be entangled in a puzzling web of municipal corruption, blackmail, and industrial espionage. A shell-shocked World War II vet nicknamed “The Ragman” may hold the key to it all, if Joe can get him to talk before the murderer strikes again.

“…by practicing his craft with dazzling skill and by digging for the deeper moral issues behind every grass-roots crime, [Archer Mayor] has made an honorable art form of the regional mystery.” —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times

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Originally Posted by sufue

There is an omnibus of the first eighteen titles in the Meg Langslow series, by Donna Andrews. It's called The Meg Langslow Series Thus Far: Books 1-18 of the Series. It's been available in the UK before in the £40 range a couple of times, and in the £30 range once, but now it's on sale for £18.57. That works out to only a bit more than £1 each if you need them all. But this could work out to a pretty good deal even if you just need some of them, so do your math! I'm quite fond of this series, and I've laughed out loud through many of the books, and not just the puns in their titles !

Link and additional info in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4051218

I just noticed I got an email a few hours ago from ereaderiq uk for this with a price of £11.97. I'm in the US and it's now well after midnight in the UK and that price is currently showing on Amazon UK so presumably it's good for Monday.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Meg-Langslo.../?tag=mr061-21

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Wow! If it gets much cheaper, it may be worth it to pick it up for the few titles I'm still missing in this series. At this point, I need to go count, and do the math...

Originally Posted by disconnected

I just noticed I got an email a few hours ago from ereaderiq uk for this with a price of £11.97. I'm in the US and it's now well after midnight in the UK and that price is currently showing on Amazon UK so presumably it's good for Monday.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Meg-Langslo.../?tag=mr061-21

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The Fatal Flying Affair is the book I was talking about below, the one I read the ARC of. It is on sale right now at Kindle UK for £0.99.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fatal-Flyin...dp/B088JZ8KNY/
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Fatal-Fly...dp/B088JZ8KNY/

Spoiler:

August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady’s maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H’s brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve.

A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has gone horribly wrong—with pilot Dickie Dupree plummeting to his death. Harry is certain there is more to this ‘tragic accident’ than meets the eye, having discovered that someone at the airfield is leaking top secret intelligence to foreign rivals.

In between strolls to the Dog & Duck and planning for the annual village show, the daring duo dust off the Crime Board and go undercover at Bristol Aviation. With international powers investing heavily in aeronautics, the stakes are high—sky high—and the suspects soon mount up.

Can Lady Hardcastle find the culprit before someone else falls down dead?

Originally Posted by sufue

I had a chance to read an ARC of the seventh book in the Lady Hardcastle series, and surprised myself by really liking it when I thought it might be too cozy for me. Of course, the seventh book has an early aviation theme, and since I've worked in aviation about half my adult life, I was ready to like it. And the author got a bunch of stuff right, like a nice layman's explanation of why airplanes take off into the wind, that enhanced my enjoyment. But I did also enjoy the characters and the plot. It is pretty cozy, but not overwhelmingly so IMO. So with these on sale, I may pick up a couple more and see if I like them even without the built-in bias. Thanks @Tarana!

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The Second Mouse is the 17th in the Joe Gunther series by Archer Mayor, a series I've mentioned before I think is a pretty nice police procedural series. It is free right now at Kindle UK, but not at Kindle US, where it looks like a different edition (Mysterious Press) and it's $9.99. And where the description reads a lot like the description for Crocodile on the Sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters, and not like The Second Mouse. Odd...maybe he only has the rights back in the UK...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B019VP6WTW

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Now the second title in this series, The Ravens of Blackwater, has dropped to £1.90 at Kindle UK. The first title, The Wolves of Savernake, has also been on sale, at £1.49 for a while, so if you want to get the first three in the series to try, you can do it right now at pretty good prices. (The links below for the third title are still good...)

The Wolves of Savernake, #1
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B082PBF45Q/
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B082PBF45Q/

The Ravens of Blackwater
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B082PBVR6Y
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B082PBVR6Y

Originally Posted by sufue

Although it wasn't his first series, the Domesday Book series was the first of Edward Marston's many series that I read, and it's still my favorite of his. The titles have been hard to get in e-book until recently, when it appears he may have gotten the rights back to some/all of them, and they've been coming out from Allison & Busby. Now the third title in the series, The Dragons of Archenfield, has dropped to £1.90 at Kindle UK. As of now, it hasn't dropped in the US.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B082P93VFP/
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B082P93VFP/


The first title in this series, The Wolves of Savernake, was on sale a little while ago, and it's still available at a pretty good price (£1.49) in the UK, although no longer on sale in the US. It's also KU in both countries, although be forewarned that the rest of the series isn't. Info and links in this previous post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4029323

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A Royal Pain is the second in the Lady Georgie/Royal Spyness series by Rhys Bowen. This is a cute/cozy series that is still a lot of fun, IMO. I look forward to new titles in this series whenever they come out. A Royal Pain has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0011UCOT8
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0011UCOT8
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-royal-pain-1

Spoiler:

Lady Georgiana finds herself in a heap of royal trouble in the second novel in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness Mystery series.

London, 1932. Poor Lady Georgiana--thirty-fourth in line to the throne--has nothing to serve her Bavarian princess houseguest, even though the Queen of England has requested that she entertain her. Then there's the matter of the body in the bookshop and the princess's unwitting involvement with the Communist party. It's enough to drive a girl mad...

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A Beam of Light (The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries Book 19) by Andrea Camilleri 1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...1-dc3240e894a8

Death on the Agenda (Henry Tibbett Book 3) by Patricia Moyes 1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Agenda-...al-text&sr=1-1

Murders in Volume 2 (Henry Gamadge Book 3) by Elizabeth Daly 1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Murders-2-Hen...t%2C227&sr=8-5

Evidence of Things Seen (Henry Gamadge Book 6) by Elizabeth Daly 1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Thin...1328314&sr=8-1

The Wrong Way Down (Henry Gamadge Book 11) by Elizabeth Daly 1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Way-Dow...1328353&sr=8-1

False Scent (Roderick Alleyn Book 21) by Ngaio Marsh 2.99
https://www.amazon.com/False-Scent-I...s%2C173&sr=1-2

Light Thickens (Roderick Alleyn Book 32) by Ngaio Marsh 2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Light-Thicken...s%2C181&sr=8-1

Surfeit of Lampreys (Roderick Alleyn Book 10) by Ngaio Marsh 2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Surfeit-Lampr...s%2C187&sr=8-1

Final Curtain (Roderick Alleyn Book 14) by Ngaio Marsh 2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Curtain...s%2C204&sr=8-1

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Surfeit of Lampreys is my favorite Inspector Alleyn book...

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Surfeit of Lampreys (Roderick Alleyn Book 10) by Ngaio Marsh 2.99
https://www.amazon.com/Surfeit-Lampr...s%2C187&sr=8-1

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