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[BetterRead]

More than 50 books by Ellery Queen are on sale today for $1.99 at Amazon US.

https://www.amazon.com/Ellery-Queen/e/B000APFUH8/

[Tarana]

The House Guest By Mark Edwards $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
I read this story earlier this year and loved it.

Choke By Stuart Woods $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

[sufue]

Originally Posted by BetterRead

More than 50 books by Ellery Queen are on sale today for $1.99 at Amazon US.

https://www.amazon.com/Ellery-Queen/e/B000APFUH8/

Awesome...

And also available at Kobo, where they are discountable if you are a VIP, or have a coupon code: https://store.kobobooks.com/search?Q...9&fcmedia=Book

[sufue]

I am really quite fond of the Jonathan Argyll/Flavia di Stefano series by Iain Pears, which is one of my top ten or fifteen favorite series. (And I wish he'd write more in the series...)

But Pears is, I think, much better known for his first non-series title, An Instance of the Fingerpost, which is also a great read. And now Fingerpost is £0.99 at Kindle UK as part of today's Daily Deal.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Instance-Fi...dp/B004WOEFBA/
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Instance-...dp/B004WOEFBA/

Spoiler:

'A fictional tour de force which combines erudition with mystery' PD James

Set in Oxford in the 1660s - a time and place of great intellectual, religious, scientific and political ferment - this remarkable novel centres around a young woman, Sarah Blundy, who stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow of New College. Four witnesses describe the events surrounding his death: Marco da Cola, a Venetian Catholic intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; Jack Prescott, the son of a supposed traitor to the Royalist cause, determined to vindicate his father; John Wallis, chief cryptographer to both Cromwell and Charles II, a mathematician, theologian and master spy; and Anthony Wood, the famous Oxford antiquary.

Each one tells their version of what happened but only one reveals the extraordinary truth. Brilliantly written, utterly convincing, gripping from the first page to the last, An Instance of the Fingerpost is a magnificent tour de force.

'Anyone who reads this will want to tell their friends about it... This is a novel that combines the simple pleasures of Agatha Christie with the intellectual subtlety of Umberto Eco, don't let it pass by unread.' The Times

[Tarana]

Andrew Gross E-Book Bundle By Andrew Gross $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Omnibus - The Dark Tide, Don't Look Twice, Reckless

The Seventh Sinner By Elizabeth Peters $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
New series (not Amelia Peabody!)

The First Deadly Sin By Lawrence Sanders $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
First book in good backlist series

Spandau Phoenix By Greg Iles $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Looks to be a spy thriller. I've read a couple of his books and gave them 4 stars.

Murder (and Baklava) By Blake Pierce FREE Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Normally writes murder suspense, but this is 1st book of a cozy series.

Myrtle Clover cozy series (Octogenarian sleuth) Amazon. Some books are matched at Kobo. I love this series although Myrtle can sometimes be a bit mean.
Book 1 FREE Pretty Is as Pretty Dies
Book 2 $2.99 Progressive Dinner Deadly
Book 3 $2.99 A Dying Shame
Book 4 Free A Body In the Backyard
Book 5 $2.99 Death at a Drop In
Book 6 $.99 A Body At Book Club

I struggled to get this link to copy, so it's here!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PJT8LC6...942372&sr=8-24

[Skydog]

Originally Posted by Tarana

The House Guest By Mark Edwards $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
I read this story earlier this year and loved it.

Choke By Stuart Woods $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N

The contributors to this thread all provide links. Is there a reason you do not provide links in your posts?

[disconnected]

Originally Posted by sufue

I am really quite fond of the Jonathan Argyll/Flavia di Stefano series by Iain Pears, which is one of my top ten or fifteen favorite series. (And I wish he'd write more in the series...)

But Pears is, I think, much better known for his first non-series title, An Instance of the Fingerpost, which is also a great read. And now Fingerpost is £0.99 at Kindle UK as part of today's Daily Deal.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Instance-Fi...dp/B004WOEFBA/
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Instance-...dp/B004WOEFBA/

I've always meant to read this, although it might be a little heavy going for the current state of my brain. I'm mainly reading or rereading really light stuff right now. I don't have an Amazon UK account so I bought it at Kobo UK for 4.99 and submitted a price match request; that's always worked for me so far.

What I'd really like to have are the two missing Jonathan/Flavia books -- Giotto's Hand and Death and Restoration. They must have fallen into a crack between publishers. Either that or whichever publisher has the rights has decided there isn't enough profit in them -- my very least favorite thing about the copyright system.

[sufue]

Yeah, I keep thinking the same thing (about Giotto and Restoration) - especially since it's the second and third from the end that aren't available, and the last one was a few years after the others. Like that maybe the first ones went out of print, so Pears was able to negotiate regarding them, and then the last one was maybe enough later that the e-rights were in the contract, and maybe just those two are hung up somehow. Or something ike that! I eventually caved and sent paperbacks off to one of those services that cut up the book, and then scan and pdf them for you. I really don't like pdf for anything other than textbooks, but eventually I just got tired of waiting.

OTOH, one of my other favorite series, Marvin Albert's Stone Angel series, it was just that an independent publisher bought the rights to the series from Albert's family, and then took a long time to get them all published in e-book. A reeeeeaaaallllly long time! Like they did the first couple, and then it was a couple of years. And then they did a big bunch in the middle pretty quickly. And then the last two were many many years later - again, long enough that I had already done the scan/pdf thing...

Now I wish someone would do e-versions of Margot Arnold's Penny Spring/Toby Glendower books....

Originally Posted by disconnected

I've always meant to read this, although it might be a little heavy going for the current state of my brain. I'm mainly reading or rereading really light stuff right now. I don't have an Amazon UK account so I bought it at Kobo UK for 4.99 and submitted a price match request; that's always worked for me so far.

What I'd really like to have are the two missing Jonathan/Flavia books -- Giotto's Hand and Death and Restoration. They must have fallen into a crack between publishers. Either that or whichever publisher has the rights has decided there isn't enough profit in them -- my very least favorite thing about the copyright system.

[Tarana]

Originally Posted by Skydog

The contributors to this thread all provide links. Is there a reason you do not provide links in your posts?

Yes, very briefly mentioned in prior posts, my ports failed so I can't use a mouse on my laptop. Using the touch pad, I have difficulty copying URL info (I only get part of it). Rather than make myself crazy, I provide the info and leave it to those interested to go to the location themselves. When I can get this laptop fixed or desktop upgraded, I will return to providing links. COVID and vet bills have caused the delay. Thank you for your patience!

[Mort1997]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Yes, very briefly mentioned in prior posts, my ports failed so I can't use a mouse on my laptop. Using the touch pad, I have difficulty copying URL info (I only get part of it). Rather than make myself crazy, I provide the info and leave it to those interested to go to the location themselves. When I can get this laptop fixed or desktop upgraded, I will return to providing links. COVID and vet bills have caused the delay. Thank you for your patience!

Thanks for taking the time to post the deals.

[sufue]

Julie Smith's books go on sale/free a lot, so I don't usually post. But sometimes I post the omnibuses when they go free, since they are such an easy way to pick up a lot of titles at once, if you don't mind having them all in one volume. (Or are into splitting them up yourself...) And sometimes they include a bit extra, such as the bonus short story included in this one.

In any case, The Complete Talba Wallis Series: Vol. 1-4 is free right now at Kindle US and UK.

Titles include:

• Louisiana Hotshot
• Louisiana Bigshot
• Louisiana Lament
• PI on a Hot Tin Roof
• bonus short story: Kid Trombone

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EKKIDMM
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01EKKIDMM

Spoiler:

MYSTERY FICTION'S MOST DYNAMIC DETECTIVE DUO--IN A BOXED SET!
Now you can get the entire 4-book Talba Wallis series by Edgar-Award winning author Julie Smith (plus bonus short story) at an irresistible price. Talba, aka poetess Baroness de Pontalba, has the beauty, the brains, the computer savvy, the poetic soul, the youth, the right demographic, and the sass. Eddie Valentino’s got the detective agency. Also a short fuse and yes, wisdom. Not only do they make it work, they’ve got chemistry.

“The quirky pleasure of watching the Baroness strut her stuff is worth the price of admission.” —Houston Chronicle

Vol. 1: LOUISIANA HOTSHOT

In Louisiana Hotshot, their job is to hunt down a sociopath and pedophile who’s molested the fourteen-year-old daughter of their client, hangs out on the ragged edges of the rap and recording industries, and has more powerful allies than a Cabinet member.

But both detectives have unfinished business from the past—in Eddie’s case, something he deeply regrets; in Talba’s, a personal mystery, one so frightening no one will help her investigate. But she knows she won’t sleep till she solves it—and the truth will change her forever.

Vol. 2: LOUISIANA BIGSHOT

The hottest detective duo in New Orleans is going to need every skill and ounce of courage they can summon in this intricate tale of a decades-old conspiracy only now coming home to roost, with the murder of Talba’s friend Babalu Maya. Babalu is actually Clayton Robineau, daughter of the local banker in a small Louisiana town that bears her name, a town buried under the weight of its own malevolent past.

As Talba and Eddie investigate, they find that something terrible happened to Clayton as a child, an injury—both pscyhic and physical--so bizarre, so shameful and damning that almost anyone in town would kill to cover it up.

Vol. 3: LOUISIANA LAMENT

One stormy day Talba gets an emergency call from Janessa, the sister she barely knows, and arrives to find a body floating in a swimming pool—the mortal husk of Allyson Brown, known in New Orleans literary circles as the Girl Gatsby. Like Gatsby, Allyson was one of those mysterious rich people who move to town, give amazing parties, and seem made of moonbeams.

Investigating, Talba finds the reality behind the Gatsby glamour. Allyson was a con artist who neglected her children, ignored her bills, and lied like a Ponzi schemer. But she wasn’t the only bad actor on the local literary scene. Fellow poet Rashad leads Talba a merry chase, leaving a trail of clues in the form of poetry, while novelists engage in fisticuffs, unseemly preening, and unforgivable arrogance.

The Baroness discovers just how seamy, petty, and downright murderous her fellow literati can be.


Vol. 4: P.I. ON A HOT TIN ROOF

YOUR LAWYER NEEDS YOU TO BAIL HER OUT? ISN'T THAT KIND OF BACKWARDS?

So thinks PI Talba Wallis, on her way to Parish Prison—and indeed something’s badly amiss.
New Orleans’ most dynamic detective duo have a personal interest in this one—Eddie’s lawyer daughter Angie’s been set up for a drug bust.

Talba embeds herself in the house of prominent Judge Buddy Champagne as a spy, and uncovers plenty of evidence the judge is dirty—but she doesn't count on how involved she was going to get—especially with Buddy’s 14-year-old daughter Lucy.

There are plenty of mysterious twists and turns on the way to an ending guaranteed to surprise—but the real joy here is in the relationships.

BONUS Talba Wallis Mystery Short Story-- KID TROMBONE!

The Big Easy’s premier jazz singer, Queenie Feran, thinks there’s more to her ex-husband’s death than an accidental overdose, and she hires PI and poet Talba Wallis--AKA the Baroness de Pontalba--to uncover the truth.

[Skydog]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Yes, very briefly mentioned in prior posts, my ports failed so I can't use a mouse on my laptop. Using the touch pad, I have difficulty copying URL info (I only get part of it). Rather than make myself crazy, I provide the info and leave it to those interested to go to the location themselves. When I can get this laptop fixed or desktop upgraded, I will return to providing links. COVID and vet bills have caused the delay. Thank you for your patience!

Yes, that is not much fun at all. Thank you for taking the time to respond.

[sufue]

Credible Threat is the fifteenth and most recent (2020) in JA Jance's Ali Reynolds series - at least until June, when the next title comes out. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. It's always nice when most-recent-in-series titles go on sale for a nice price!

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07THC4KQK
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07THC4KQK
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/credible-threat-3

Spoiler:

Ali Reynolds and her team at High Noon Enterprises must race against the clock to save an archbishop who faces mysterious death threats in yet another “incredible” (Suspense Magazine) installment of J.A. Jance’s New York Times bestselling series.

Years after her son’s fatal overdose, grieving mother Rachel Higgins learns that his addiction may have grown out of damage suffered at the hands of a pedophile priest while he was in high school. Looking for vengeance, she targets the Catholic Church’s most visible local figure, Archbishop Francis Gillespie. When the archbishop begins receiving anonymous threats, local police dismiss them, saying they’re not credible. So he turns to his friends, Ali Reynolds and her husband, B. Simpson.

With B. out of the country on a cybersecurity emergency, it’s up to Ali to track down the source of the threats. When a shooter assassinates the archbishop’s driver and leaves the priest himself severely injured, Ali forms an uneasy alliance with a Phoenix homicide cop in hopes of preventing another attack. But Ali doesn’t realize that the killer has become not only more unhinged but also more determined to take out his or her target.

[tch65721]

Ruddy Gore (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Book 7) by Kerry Greenwood - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NNTS2G9

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Yes, very briefly mentioned in prior posts, my ports failed so I can't use a mouse on my laptop. Using the touch pad, I have difficulty copying URL info (I only get part of it). Rather than make myself crazy, I provide the info and leave it to those interested to go to the location themselves. When I can get this laptop fixed or desktop upgraded, I will return to providing links. COVID and vet bills have caused the delay. Thank you for your patience!

There is a solution to your mouse problem. As long as your laptop has bluetooth, you can get a bluetooth mouse. Problem solved.