FREE/BARGAIN — Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers

[sufue]

Stargazer is the sixth and most recent (2021) in Anne Hillerman's continuation of her father's long-running Leaphorn/Chee/Manuelito series. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle as part of today's Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CXXPYN2/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/stargazer-36

Spoiler:

Murder, deception, Navajo tradition, and the stars collide in this enthralling entry in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series, set amid the beautiful landscape of the American Southwest.

What begins as a typical day for Officer Bernadette Manuelito—serving a bench warrant, dealing with a herd of cattle obstructing traffic, and stumbling across a crime scene—takes an unexpected twist when she’s called to help find an old friend. Years ago, Bernie and Maya were roommates, but time and Maya’s struggles with addiction drove them apart. Now Maya’s brother asks Bernie to find out what happened to his sister.

Tracing Maya’s whereabouts, Bernie learns that her old friend had confessed to the murder of her estranged husband, a prominent astronomer. But the details don’t align. Suspicious, Bernie takes a closer look at the case only to find that nothing is as it seems. Uncovering new information about the astronomer’s work leads Bernie to a remote spot on the Navajo Nation and a calculating killer.

The investigation causes an unexpected rift with her husband and new acting boss, Jim Chee, who’s sure Bernie’s headed for trouble. While she’s caught between present and past, Chee is at a crossroads of his own. Burdened with new responsibilities he didn’t ask for and doesn’t want, he must decide what the future holds for him and act accordingly.

Can their mentor Joe Leaphorn—a man also looking at the past for answers to the future—provide the guidance both Bernie and Chee need? And will the Navajo heroes that stud the starry sky help them find justice—and the truth they seek?

[Critteranne]

The Happy Family by Jackie Kabler is 99 cents in the Kindle store. (Her ebooks are usually around $3.99.) It's published by "One More Chapter," which is part of HarperCollins.

Harper publishes a lot of psychological thrillers with bargain prices. They often have subtitles like "A gripping USA Today psychological crime thriller with a twist you won’t see coming!"

Kindle US edition

[sufue]

Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is 8 books by Val McDermid for £0.99 each...

Titles include:

• The Skeleton Road (Karen Pirie #3)
• Broken Ground (Karen Pirie #5)
• Out of Bounds (Karen Pirie #4)
• Trick of the Dark
• Cross and Burn (Tony Hill/Carol Jordan #8)
• The Retribution (Tony Hill/Carol Jordan #7)
• Splinter the Silence (Tony Hill/Carol Jordan #9)
• The Vanishing Point

link to the sale page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=s9_ac...d_i=3017941031

[Tarana]

Sleight of Paw By Sofie Kelly $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy - Has 2 cats on the cover

The Doomsday Key By James Rollins $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Thiller action/adventure

Deadly Darkness By Kate Parker $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Historical mystery cozy

[Mort1997]

Free today on Amazon UK - Hunting Evil by Chris Carter


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Evi...9B7FH11S15DXYY

Spoiler:

Every story has a beginning...

They met for the first time in college. Two of the brightest minds ever to graduate from the prestigious Stanford University. They met again in Quantico, Virginia. Robert Hunter has become the head of the LAPD’s Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Lucien Folter has become the most prolific and dangerous serial killer in FBI history.

Hunter caught Lucien. He's been in prison for years. But Lucien has just escaped. And he’s angry. He's going to make the man who put him away suffer.
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That person ... is Robert Hunter.

And every story must come to an end...

[Tarana]

Murder in an Irish Village By Carlene O’Connor $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy

UPDATE: Also on Special:
Murder in an Irish Cottage by Carlene O'Connor $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy

Murder in An Irish Churchyard by Carlene O'Connor $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy


The Murder at the Vicarage By Agatha Christie $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy - In case you missed this a few months ago. First in the series.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by Mort1997

Free today on Amazon UK - Hunting Evil by Chris Carter

I had to look to make sure it wasn't the same Chris Carter that created The X-Files.

[sufue]

Three of CJ Box's books are gathered in an omnibus called The Big Sky Collection. Two feature Cassie Dewell/Cody Hoyt: Three Weeks To Say Goodbye and Back of Beyond. The third is a non-series title, Blue Heaven, which, per SYKM, won the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Mystery. The collection has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK. This collection doesn't seem to exist in the US, but a similar four-book collection, which also includes The Highway, is currently $27.97 (!!!) in the US.

In addition, Blue Heaven is also available individually right now at Kindle UK for £0.99.

And finally, Box's Winterkill, which is the third in his Joe Pickett series, is on sale for $1.99 in the US.


The Big Sky Collection
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009E99DRY

Back of Beyond
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003V4ASZY

Winterkill
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OIZUWQ/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/winterkill-1

[sufue]

In Dublin's Fair City is the sixth in the Molly Murphy series by Rhys Bowen. It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. Most titles in this series don't go on sale very often, so grab it if you want it!

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003JBICK2/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B003JBICK2/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/in-dublin-s-fair-city

Spoiler:

Molly Murphy's beau Captain Daniel Sullivan may be out of jail on bail, but he's still a ways from clearing his name, and his foul mood has Molly in search of a little breathing room when providence steps in in the form of a proposition from New York City's renowned theatrical impresario Tommy Burke.

America has been very good to Tommy, and now that he's getting on in years, he'd like to pass some of that good fortune on to his family back in Ireland. That's, of course, if Molly can find the long-lost baby sister his family left in the care of a parish priest when they fled the famine and avoid the warrant out for her arrest that forced Molly to flee herself. Tempted by the prospect of going home for the first time in years and putting her fledging detective agency on firm financial ground, Molly throws caution to the wind and climbs aboard the White Start Liner Majestic with hopes of sneaking on and off the isle without raising a peep.

But even before Molly lands on the other side of the Atlantic, Broadway's leading actress, Oona Sheehan, has gone missing from the ship, and her maid is found dead in her cabin.

Full of rich historic detail and enchanting turn-of-the-century personalities, Molly's return home, In Dublin's Fair City, is the sixth thrilling installment in Rhys Bowen's award-winning Molly Murphy series.

[Tarana]

Barking with the Stars by Sparkle Abbey $.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy - sometimes silly but I love this series. Dog on cover.

[sufue]

Tragedy on the Branch Line is the most recent (2021) in Edward Marston's Railway Detective series. It has dropped to £1.89 at Kindle UK as of right now. No idea how long it will stay that way...

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GPLRLRR
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08GPLRLRR

Spoiler:

When Robert Pomeroy, a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours of a rainy day, he flies into a panic. Hastily readying himself and dashing off a few lines for the porter to summon his friend Nicholas Thorpe, he hurries to the railway station. But he doesn’t reach his destination alive.

Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called upon to investigate this tragedy on the railway. It soon becomes apparent that Cambridge’s hopes of success in the forthcoming Boat Race rested on Pomeroy’s shoulders. With academic disputes, romantic interests and a sporting rivalry with Oxford in play, the Railway Detective will have his work cut out to disentangle the threads of Pomeroy’s life in order to answer the truth of his death.

[Tarana]

The Girl in the Woods By Gregg Olsen $1.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Thriller

The Woman in the Window By A. J. Finn $2.99 Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Thriller; Don't know author. Looked interesting.

Murder as Sticky as Jam By Diana Orgain FREE Amazon, Kobo and B&N
Cozy

[sufue]

Almost two years later, again on sale, but only at Kindle US (at least as of now), and for $4.99, not $3.99. The link below is still good.

Originally Posted by sufue

The Britt Montero Series is an omnibus that contains (surprise!) the first five titles in the Britt Montero series by Edna Buchanan: Contents Under Pressure; Miami, It's Murder; Suitable for Framing; Act of Betrayal; and Margin of Error. Per SYKM, the second title in the series was a finalist for an Edgar.

It has dropped to $3.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NDRF93N
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/britt-montero-series

[sufue]

A Recipe for Murder is a non-series title by Roderic Jeffries, writing originally as Jeffrey Ashford. It is free right now at Kindle US and UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HZZPY7G
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01HZZPY7G

Spoiler:

Everyone has a breaking point…

Avis Scott is extraordinarily beautiful...but also extraordinarily cold-hearted.

Frustrated by her marriage to novelist Kevin Scott – whose books have never brought the fame and fortune he once promised – Avis wants to change the direction her life is taking.

And what could be more appropriate than a new marriage to another, wealthier, man?

Even if that man is already married to another woman.

For now, at least …

Yet as Avis plots and schemes, all her friends and neighbours know of her is what they see, and what Avis chooses to tell them.

As her web of lies grows ever bigger, she spins an elaborate tale about her husband striking up a close friendship with another woman.

So when Avis Scott suddenly vanishes, and her car is dragged from the sea, is it any wonder that suspicion falls upon her husband, Kevin Scott?

Avis’s friends are convinced that he has killed her and they tell the police just that.

Their accusations seem to have been justified with the discovery of Avis’ body.

But is Kevin Scott really capable of murdering his wife?

And if he’s not, then who is?

Detective Sergeant Kelly is the man who must unravel the complicated life of Avis Scott, both public and private, and in doing so he must unpick the intricacies of the local community and the notorious divide between old and new money.

Pressure starts to mount when a second member of the community is found murdered.

Will the laid-back detective finally catch the killer?

A Recipe for Murder has all the elements of a classic British crime novel, and is bound to please lovers of detective fiction the world over.

[cromag]

Shucked Apart (A Maine Clambake Mystery Book 9), by Barbara Ross, is the latest in the Clambake Mystery series set in Maine. It's currently priced at $0.99 at Amazon (US). Titles in this series occasionally go on sale for $1.99.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089N3KK89


EDIT: I just checked. Looks like the price is back up to $6.99.