FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[issybird]

My own feeling is that while links are very helpful, people are free to post as much or as little info as is convenient for them and thank you for making the effort!

See: Gift horse, mouth.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by issybird

My own feeling is that while links are very helpful, people are free to post as much or as little info as is convenient for them and thank you for making the effort!

See: Gift horse, mouth.

Hear, hear!! I agree heartily.

[4691mls]

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!

Originally Posted by JSWolf

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

Given that Covid and vet bills are causing the delay, it sounds like it would be poor use of funds to buy an extra mouse they probably won't need once they are able to get the computer fixed....

Originally Posted by issybird

My own feeling is that while links are very helpful, people are free to post as much or as little info as is convenient for them and thank you for making the effort!

See: Gift horse, mouth.

As long as the post says where they saw the sale (i.e. Kindle or Kobo) along with the title and author that's enough for me to be able to find it.

[cromag]

I've never had a problem with highlighting the title and author and opening Google in another tab. Mostly, I just appreciate the heads up.

[sufue]

Me too!

Originally Posted by cromag

I've never had a problem with highlighting the title and author and opening Google in another tab. Mostly, I just appreciate the heads up.

[sufue]

The C.I.D Room is (not too surprisingly) the first in the C.I.D. Room series by Roderic Jeffries. It's free right now at Kindle US and UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G3VAILU
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01G3VAILU

Spoiler:

Detective Inspector Fusil loves his job.

But the recent Burchell case landed him in front of the Chief Constable and left a black mark on his record.

His future is on the line — if he can’t break the next big case that comes across his desk in a timely fashion, he can say goodbye to his future in the force.

Unfortunately for Fusil, his next case takes place just after one of his best men has been transferred to another county, leaving him with the inexperienced Detective Constable Kerr.

Things don’t get off to a good start when Kerr’s unwillingness to go above and beyond the call of duty immediately puts him at odds with Fusil’s all-in approach to policing.

However, after the dramatic theft of five thousand pounds’ worth of gold from the T.S.S. Sandstream, the two men are forced to work together.

Hunting down clues in an unrelated case, Kerr starts sniffing around the Sandstream and without knowing it, edges ever-closer to the shocking truth behind the disappearing gold.

With Kerr getting dangerously close to the solving the crime, the perpetrators react quickly, framing him as a blackmailer in an attempt to distract the C.I.D from their next gold theft.

Faced with charges against his newest D.C., Fusil must quickly decide if he trusts Kerr or not.

Would he dare risk a man’s life to catch an untouchable criminal and put his own career back on track?

The C.I.D. Room is an ingeniously plotted police thriller that will leave readers desperate for more.

[sufue]

The Third Nero is the fifth book in Lindsey Davis's spin-off Flavia Albia series, which features Falco's daughter, Flavia Albia, following in her father's footsteps as an investigator. I've enjoyed this new series just as much as the original, which is a good thing, because Davis seems to be done with Falco - Nemesis, published more than a decade ago, sort of had a bit of a feel of a "wrap-up" and that's how it has turned out to be.

In any case, Nero has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. The later Lindsey Davis titles don't go on sale all that often, so grab it if you want it!

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NCN4303
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-third-nero-2

Spoiler:

In 90 A.D., following the Saturninus revolt in Germany, the Emperor Domitian has become more paranoid about traitors and dissenters around him. This leads to several senators and even provincial governors facing charges and being executed for supposed crimes of conspiracy and insulting the emperor. Wanting to root out all the supports of Saturninus from the Senate, one of Domitian’s men offers to hire Flavia Alba to do some intelligence work.

Flavia Alba, daughter and chip off the old block of Marcus Didius Falco, would rather avoid any and all court intrigue, thank you very much. But she’s in a bit of a bind. Her wedding is fast approaching, her fiancé is still recovering—slowly—from being hit by a lightning bolt, and she’s the sole support of their household. So with more than a few reservations, she agrees to “investigate.”

Adding to the confusion is yet another Nero pretender has shown up in Parthia and is trying to rally support for his claim for the throne. With intrigue upon intrigue swirling around the capital city, it’s up to Albia to uncover what is—and isn’t—the real threat.

[sufue]

Game of Bones is the 20th in the fun but very cozy Sarah Booth Delaney series by Carolyn Haines. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Just like the later Lindsey Davis titles in my previous post, recent Sarah Booth Delany titles don't go on sale very often, so grab it if you want it.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J52GCSP
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07J52GCSP
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/game-of-bones-3

Spoiler:

The next charming mystery from Carolyn Haines featuring spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.

When a ritually murdered corpse is discovered at the new-found Native-American temple site smack in the middle of Sunflower County, Mississippi, the archaeology crew on the dig is immediately under suspicion — with particular focus on its handsome, flirtatious leader, Dr. Frank Hafner. So when Sheriff Coleman Peters closes in on him, Hafner does the only logical thing: he hires the Delaney Detective Agency to clear his name.

Rumors swirl around Mount Salla, the burial mound created centuries before by the local Native tribes, and no one is sure what the site contains — bones, pottery, treasures, or a curse — but the victims start to add up. Sarah Booth and her partner, Tinkie, have too many likely suspects to whittle down the list. It’s a race against time once Sarah Booth’s resident ghost, Jitty, in the guise of various Native American warrior women, points to the waxing of the coming Crow Moon as the time of maximum danger.

Death and mystery cloak the site, and Sarah Booth isn’t sure who to trust or what to believe. But she won’t rest until she’s dug up the truth.

[sufue]

I am not super fond of psychological thrillers. And so, having read somewhere that Jonathan Kellerman’s main character in his main series is a psychologist, Alex Delaware, I just sort of wrote the series off, assuming that these were psychological thrillers. (And you know what they say about when you assume something – although if I actually say it, I'll probably get in trouble...)

In any case, I had a chance to read an ARC of Kellerman's 36th and latest book, Serpentine, a while back, and discovered that it was instead a pretty nice police procedural, and I liked it a lot. Now Serpentine has gone on sale in the UK for £2.99. Which is a little odd - the UK habit of putting frontlist books very briefly on sale soon after publication is usually at £0.99. But this is still a really good price for a book that came out only two months ago, so I'd grab it if you want it.

And now my TBR list is 35 titles longer in one fell swoop .

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B088WMHB4T
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B088WMHB4T

Spoiler:

The electrifying new Alex Delaware thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.

Ellie Barker never knew her mother.

When she was barely three years old, her mother was found with a bullet in her head inside a torched Cadillac, overturned on Mulholland Drive. No physical evidence, no witness and no apparent motive.

Decades on, many detectives tried and failed to get to the bottom of the case.

Desperate for answers, Ellie hires LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis, who calls in the expertise of brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware, to investigate.

But as the duo start digging, the mystery becomes even more twisted. And they soon discover a string of dangerous threats still lurking in the present...

[sufue]

Catering to Nobody is the first in Diane Mott Davidson's Goldy Schulz catering/mystery series. It is free right now in the UK, but not in the US. (Maybe she got the e-rights back in the UK only???) This is a fun series, and if you live or visit in the UK, it's free to try right now!

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07HKDC652

Spoiler:

“DELICIOUS…SURE TO SATISFY!” — Sue Grafton

Meet the caterer who whipped up the multimillion-copy mystery series – as Chef Goldy solves her first murder.

Catering a wake is not Goldy’s idea of fun. Yet the Colorado caterer throws herself into preparing a savory feast including Poached Salmon and Strawberry Shortcake Buffet designed to soothe forty mourners. And her culinary efforts seem to be exactly what the doctor ordered…until her ex-father-in-law Fritz Korman is struck down and Goldy is accused of adding poison to the menu….

Now, with the Department of Health impounding her leftovers, her ex-husband proclaiming her guilt, and her business about to be shut down, Goldy knows she can’t wait for the police to serve up the answers. She’ll soon uncover more than one family skeleton and a veritable stew of unpalatable secrets—the kind that could make Goldy the main course in an unsavory killer’s next murder!

Catering to Nobody serves up a tantalizing dish of secrets, suspicions, and murder. Set to make your mouth water, you’ll find all of Goldy’s recipes included.

[Tarana]

The Honourable Schoolboy By John le Carré $1.99 Amazon,Kobo and B&N

Night of the Fox By Jack Higgins $1.99 Amazon,Kobo and B&N

[sufue]

The Dragon Man is the first in Garry Disher's Hal Challis series. It has dropped to £1.99 at Kindle UK. I've read a couple of titles in Disher's Hirsch series, and really liked them, so I'm going to give this one a try too.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B083CTB42K
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B083CTB42K

Spoiler:

THE FIRST HAL CHALLIS NOVEL

It was as easy as that. Inspired, really. That first one, last week, she hadn't been a challenge at all. Drunk, half-drugged, hitchhiking, she'd been too easy. At least he'd got to use his head a little tonight. His headlights probed the darkness as he carried her away, high above the rottenness that was always there under the light of the sun.

Summer on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne. The heat's ramping up, the usual holiday madness building. Detective Inspector Hal Challis is already recycling his shower water and starting to dread Christmas.

But this year there's something more. Women abducted and murdered on the Old Highway. A pall of fear over the scorched paddocks. The media are demanding answers—and Challis's sleepy beat is set to explode.

[sufue]

Now £0.99 each at Kindle UK, but still no third title in the works .

The Frame-Up, #1: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07B3WQYXN/
The Queen Con, #2: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07JDGHMZL

Oh, and still $0.99 each in the US - links below are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

I'm not sure about 47 North as a publisher, but these are listed in SYKM. And, in any case, I've read and enjoyed both of these, so...

Both titles in Meghan Scott Molin's short 2-book Golden Arrow series have dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US. I was kind of hoping this might be in honor of a third on the way, but nothing shows up as pre-order, so sadly, probably not.

The Frame-Up, #1
link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B3WQYXN


The Queen Con, #2
link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JDGHMZL

[sufue]

Some most recent-in-series books from Kindle UK at £0.99 each...

The Lost Boys, Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #26, by Faye Kellerman: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B085WVFHR3

Midnight at Malabar House, most recent (and first) in Vaseem Khan's Malabar House, although a new one is due in July: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B081SK1S7K

The Custom House Murders, Captain Lacey #15, by Ashley Gardner (pen name for Jennifer Ashley): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08CVSS6FC

Fair Warning, Jack McEvoy/Rachel Walling #3, by Michael Connelly: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B081ZWNLQ2

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Night of the Fox By Jack Higgins $1.99 Amazon,Kobo and B&N

Caution: I bought a version of this book in 2011, but THIS book doesn't show that I've bought it already.