FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[Tarana]

The Tin Collectors By Stephen J. Cannell $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Thriller. My Mom is a big fan of the late Stephen Cannell.

The Gladstone Bag By Charlotte MacLeod $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy - art sleuths

[sufue]

If you are lucky enough to live in/visit Canada, or another country with shorter copyright periods (although Canada's may be going away with the sad renegotiation of NAFTA), then The Maltese Falcon and many (all?) other Dashiell Hammett titles are in the public domain, and you can get them for free from Faded Page, Gutenberg Canada, or other similar websites. If not, then you may be happy to see a legit (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) version of The Maltese Falcon on sale in the US for only $1.99, which is the least it has been, according to eReaderIQ, in at least a decade. Hammett's titles are usually pretty expensive in the US, so I'd grab it now if you even think you might want it !

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Maltese-Falco...dp/B004G5ZU32/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/Maltese-Fal...dp/B004G5ZU32/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-maltese-falcon-2

Spoiler:

A coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.

A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man named Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon.

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Almost two years later, again at $1.99. Links below are still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

O Jerusalem is the fifth in Laurie R. King's excellent IMO Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Titles in this series tend to be really expensive in the US ($9-ish and up) when not on sale, and don't go on sale very often, so grab it while you can.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0027G6XCY
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/o-jerusalem-1

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[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by sufue

...you may be happy to see a legit (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) version of The Maltese Falcon on sale in the US for only $1.99, which is the least it has been, according to eReaderIQ, in at least a decade. Hammett's titles are usually pretty expensive in the US, so I'd grab it now if you even think you might want it !

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Maltese-Falco...dp/B004G5ZU32/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/Maltese-Fal...dp/B004G5ZU32/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-maltese-falcon-2

Yep. I was coming to share the same thing. That's a deal I've been waiting for!

[Tarana]

Bodies, Baddies and a Crabby Tabby By Sherri Bryan FREE Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy - Don't know author but there is a cat on the cover

Lions of the Desert By Samuel Marquis FREE Amazon only
Action/Adventure/suspense I don't normally post indies, but this one has won a few awards. Looked interesting.

Bitter Pill By Fern Michaels $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Suspense

Squeeze Me By Carl Hiaasen $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Crime but usually funny

Friday on My Mind By Nicci French $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Psychological Suspense

Miranda Chase: Books 1–3 By M.L. Buchman $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Thriller - feautures Air Crash investigator

Fall from Grace By Richard North Patterson $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Thriller based in Martha's Vineyard area

[sufue]

Yes, really rare for his books to go on sale in the US, and they are just outrageeously priced when not. I was lucky and had a work trip to Canada not long before the Covid meltdown. I was very organized with my downloading while there !

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Yep. I was coming to share the same thing. That's a deal I've been waiting for!

[sufue]

The Habit of Murder is the 23rd and next-to-most-recent in the Matthew Bartholomew series by Susanna Gregory. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. I enjoyed the first few books in this series many years ago in DTB, and since then have liked the few that have gone on sale from time to time.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N6DCRQ1/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01N6DCRQ1/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-habit-of-murder

Spoiler:

The twenty third chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew.

In 1360 a deputation from Cambridge ventures to the Suffolk town of Clare in the hope that the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh has left a legacy to Michaelhouse. Yet when they arrive they discover that the report of her death is false and that the college seems destined for bankruptcy.

Determined to see if some of its well-heeled citizens can be persuaded to sponsor Michaelhouse, Matthew Bartholomew, Brother Michael and Master Langelee become enmeshed in the town's politics. They quickly discover that a great many other people in Clare have recently met untimely deaths. These killings, combined with the arrogance Lady de Burgh has shown over the refurbishment of the church and the grotesque behaviour of some of her entourage, have created a dangerous restlessness in the town: an atmosphere intensified when yet more murders occur.

One of the victims is a fellow traveller of the Michaelhouse contingent, and Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael feel honour-bound to identify his killer. It is a hunt which takes them deep into Clare's murky foundations and which threatens their own survival as well as that of their beloved college.

And, as @murraypaul mentioned in an earlier post, the first two books in the series seem to be permanently at $0.99 and $1.99, so you can try the series on the cheap if you want to. Info here.

And finally, when I was looking at the series page, I noticed that the eleventh book, The Mark Of A Murderer, is still $1.66, which it has been for quite a while. Info in @Tarana's previous post.

And here are Kobo links for the last three:
A Plague On Both Your Houses, #1: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-p...-your-houses-1
An Unholy Alliance, #2: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/an-unholy-alliance-4
The Mark Of A Murderer, #11: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...f-a-murderer-1

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Hachette Book Group has a number of mysteries (via several of their imprints) for $0.99 right now. I'm in a hurry, so no blurbs or Smile links....

Murder by the Minster by Helen Cox, Kitt Hartley #1
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RDJTPQY/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mur...-the-minster-1

Murder On Mustique by Anne Glenconner
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KQ2N7SB/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/murder-on-mustique-2

Death from a Shetland Cliff, Shetland Sailing #8 (most recent, 2020), by Marsali Taylor
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BZ9RM7W/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dea...etland-cliff-1

Murder on the Edge, Libby Sarjeant (recent, 2020), by Lesley Cookman
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FHWL83P/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/murder-on-the-edge-1

The Bone Garden, DI Wesley Peterson #5, by Kate Ellis
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GVFUW7O/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-bone-garden-3

Thieves Dozen, Dortmunder short story collection, by Donald E. Westlake
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001I3BQT2/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/thieves-dozen

After Dark, My Sweet, by Jim Thompson
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005IGVSFW/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/after-dark-my-sweet

The Silver Collar, Thomas Hawkins #4, by Antonia Hodgson
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HYQ6SQ6/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-silver-collar-4

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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman is $2.99 on Amazon.com
First in a series.

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club.

When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.

As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?

[Tarana]

A Room with a Roux By Sarah Fox $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Don't know author but there is a cat and pancakes on the cover.

[Tarana]

In Peppermint Peril By Joy Avon $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy

The Lucky One By Lori Rader-Day $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Psychological Thriller. Edgar nominated author

The Bad Sister By Kevin O’Brien $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Thriller. Looks interesting

Death in Daylesford By Kerry Greenwood $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Historical mystery - Ms. Fisher series - 1920s Australia

[sufue]

Free again, several years later.

The link below is still good for UK, and here's the link for US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004VS73HA

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free on Amazon UK - Dear Mr. Holmes: Seven Holmes on the Range Mysteries by Steve Hockensmith

Spoiler:

Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer have starred in five "Holmes on the Range" novels, rustling up award nominations and fans aplenty as they cracked mysteries using the methods of their hero, Sherlock Holmes. How did these Old West drifters first discover Holmes, though? What were they doing before their novel adventures began? And how did their early, awkward stabs at "deducifying" turn out? These seven short stories provide the answers.

In "Dear Mr. Holmes," Old Red first gets the itch to turn detective -- and just in time, too, because a killer's stalking him and his brother along a Kansas cattle trail. In "Gustav Amlingmeyer, Holmes of the Range," Old Red's attempt to settle down and open his own "cafay" goes haywire when one of the customers gets a side order of arsenic with his steak and potatoes. In "Wolves in Winter," Big Red and Old Red go up against deadly predators of both the two- and four-legged variety. And the adventure continues in four more stories (most of them originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine).

UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dear-Mr-Hol...ds=hockensmith

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Immortal in Death is the third in the In Death series by JD Robb (aka Nora Roberts, It’s $2.99 right now at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OCXJPM
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/immortal-in-death-1

Spoiler:

In the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas uncovers a world where technology can create beauty and youth, but passion and greed can destroy them...

She was one of the most sought after women in the world. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted—even another woman’s man. And now she was dead, the victim of a brutal murder. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas put her life on the line to take the case when suspicion fell on her best friend, the other woman in the fatal love triangle. Beneath the façade of glamour, Eve found that the world of high fashion thrived on an all-consuming obsession for youth and fame. One that led from the runway to the dark underworld of New York City where drugs could be found to fulfill any desire—for a price…

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If you didn't buy this at $3.99, it's now $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. The links below are still good...

Originally Posted by sufue

Trouble Is What I Do is the sixth and most recent (2020) in the Leonid McGill series by Walter Mosley, who is perhaps (much) better known for his Easy Rawlins series. It has dropped to $3.99 at Kindle US as part of the Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SLY7D5Y/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07SLY7D5Y/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/trouble-is-what-i-do

[Tarana]

The Listening Eye By Patricia Wentworth $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Historical mystery cozy - Miss Silver series

The Thursday Murder Club By Richard Osman $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy - retirement age slueths

A Small Weeping - Alex Gray $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Detective

Romance - Ed McBain $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Detective - 87 Precinct series. According to EreaderIQ - as this is as low as this one goes.