FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

The Canterbury Murders by E. M. Powell is the third in her Stanton and Barling mysteries, set in 12th century England. Just £0.99 at Amazon UK at the moment.

I've read the first two, and rated them both 5/5.

I second the recommendation - I had an ARC of this and quite liked it...

[pdurrant]

The seven Lady Hardcastle mysteries by T E Kinsey are on sale at £0.99 each at the moment. I've read the first in the spin-off series, The Deadly Mystery of the Missing Diamonds, and if this lot are up to that standard they're well worth reading. I can't resist.

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

The seven Lady Hardcastle mysteries by T E Kinsey are on sale at £0.99 each at the moment. I've read the first in the spin-off series, The Deadly Mystery of the Missing Diamonds, and if this lot are up to that standard they're well worth reading. I can't resist.

I read and really liked the most recent Lady Hardcastle book, The Fatal Flying Affair. I'm a little biased because I have spent maybe half my career in aviation, and my husband is even more of an aviation buff that I am, and Kinsey gets a lot of the little details right, including a nice layman's explanation of why airplanes take off into the wind. But it also was just a flat out fun mystery. I've now read Missing Diamonds, and if you liked the one, you'll like the other, I think. Just change out Jazz-Age London for a (not so) sleepy English village...

[Tarana]

The Last Agent By Robert Dugoni $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Espionage thriller

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The omnibus is now a Countdown Deal in both the US and UK ($2.99/£1.99), for about 6 more days. If you didn't buy the individual titles earlier, this is great deal for the four books. The links below are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

The first two titles in the Geoffrey Chaucer series by Philip Gooden have dropped to $0.99/£0.99 each at Kindle US/UK, as Kindle Countdown deals, good for about 6 more days. The remaining two titles are not too badly priced as is at $3.99/£2.99, and there's also an omnibus of all four for $5.99/£4.99, if you want to get them all at once. These were originally published under the pen name Philippa Morgan, but I couldn't find much info on those editions - I'm guessing Gooden has gotten the rights back and is re-publishing them himself.

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Medieval Blood: The Geoffrey Chaucer Mysteries - omnibus of all four titles
Kindle US: https://smile.amazon.com/Medieval-Bl...dp/B08FF2M31P/
Kindle UK: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Medieval-...dp/B08FF2M31P/

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A set of the first three Ruth Galloway novels by Elly Griffiths for 3.99 –

https://www.amazon.com/Ruth-Galloway...al-text&sr=1-2
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ruth-galloway-series

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The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré is $1.99 on Amazon.com
This is the sixth George Smiley novel.

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Some random price drops in the US...

Murder at the FBI, Capital Crimes #6, by Margaret Truman, $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Murder-FBI-Ca...dp/B07H14FZBX/
Kobo US (discountable): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/murder-at-the-fbi

Cold Case, Carlotta Carlyle #7, by Linda Barnes, $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Case-Car...dp/B00XV8A24M/

This Side of Murder, Verity Kent #1, by Anna Lee Huber, $2.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N4JS4N4
Kobo US (discountable): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/this-side-of-murder-3

Treacherous Is the Night, Verity Kent #2, by Anna Lee Huber, $2.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Treacherous-N...dp/B078QSYZ3H/

The Homicidal Virgin, about halfway through the Mike Shayne series, by Brett Halliday (one of the Brett Hallidays), $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013CUC1L0
Kobo US (discountable): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-homicidal-virgin

Ragged Lake, Frank Yakabuski #1, by Ron Corbett, $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071CX8MYG

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Free again a couple of years later. Links below are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

Hook or Crook is the 20th in the Keith Calder series by Gerald Hammond. It is free right now at Kindle US and Kindle UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MX8FGZK
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hook-Crook-...dp/B07MX8FGZK/

[Tarana]

Knit of the Living Dead By Peggy Ehrhart $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Don't know author at all but loved the title and there was a cat on the cover. Cozy mystery

The Alington Inheritance By Patricia Wentworth $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Miss Silver series

Red Storm Rising By Tom Clancy $1.99 Amazon,Kobo and B&N
Still on sale.

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Now $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. @ZodWallop's link below is still good for Kindle US, and here's the Kobo link: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-long-goodbye-6

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler is $2.99 at Amazon US.



There's a lot of cheap Raymond Chandler books on Amazon, but I'm pretty sure they are pirate editions, based on the fact they use the original pulp covers and Chandler isn't in the public domain. The book I'm linking to is the legit edition.

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When I first noticed Blood of a Gladiator in my eReaderIQ feed, I figured it had to be a Simon Scarrow title. Imagine my surprise , when it turned out to be the first book in a new historical series by Jennifer Ashley, whose Captain Gabriel Lacey series, written using the pen name Ashley Gardner, I've quite liked. That series started out traditionally published, and then Gardner started self-pubbing it, but I've liked all of the ones I've read, which is most (maybe all) of them.

I have not read Blood of a Gladiator, but it's free right now in the US, and Ashley has done well self-pubbing her other series, and if I wait until I have read it, it probably won't be free anymore. So, if you are sensitive to self-pubbed, skip the rest of this post... (But it's free, so if you try it and hate it, just delete it!) And, the description reminds me a little bit of David Wishart's "political" Marcus Corvinus books, which are my favorites among that series, so I have my fingers crossed.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087C9MR2S
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/blood-of-a-gladiator/

Spoiler:

Leonidas, champion gladiator of Rome, is set free from the games by a mysterious benefactor who grants him freedom, a place to live, and a servant—Cassia, a scribe—to look after him.

But the benefactor is only so generous—Leonidas must pay his own way and Cassia’s, which means hiring himself out. The sharp-witted Cassia quickly lands him a post as a bodyguard, escorting a retired senator to Ostia.

The trip soon turns deadly, as Leonidas and Cassia find themselves squarely in the middle of intrigue that reaches from the slums of the Subura to the Palatine Hill and the emperor Nero himself.

[Tarana]

The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax By Dorothy Gilman $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

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Originally Posted by Tarana

The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax By Dorothy Gilman $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

That's #3 in the series, by the way. Fun books!

https://smile.amazon.com/Elusive-Mrs.../dp/B00K4C4GYU

[ZodWallop]

The Fifth Profession by David Morrell is $0.99 at Amazon US.

I haven't read The Fifth Profession yet, but I have really enjoyed the other Morrell books I have read.

From the bestselling author of First Blood comes a spectacular thriller, in which a former Navy SEAL and a Japanese samurai master are bound together in a terrifying past that never happened.